Presenting or pointing out

  

'here's my cloth', 'there's Bala'

To say 'here's...' when presenting something to someone or 'there's...' when pointing something or someone out, Hausa uses an invariable word ga 'here's..., there's...'. Ga must always have an expressed object. The ga expression will often be followed by nan 'here' or can 'there'. A ga sentence can include a phrase indicating a specific location.

Ga kud'in.
Ga yadi, na kawo.
Ga jakuna nan.
Ga Bala can.
Ga dutse can yamma da gari.		 'Here's the money.'
'Here's cloth, I've brought it.'
'Here are some donkeys.'
'There's Bala over there.'
'There's a hill to the west of town.'

Ga uses the direct object form of the pronoun for pronoun objects.

Ga shi can bayan kujera.
Ga mu nan.		 'There it is behind the chair.'
'Here we are.'