1000 most common words in English and Hausa
To learn Hausa language words common vocabulary is one of the important sections. Common Vocabulary contains common words that we can used in daily life. Here you learn top 1000 words in English with Hausa translation. If you are interested to learn 1000 most common Hausa words, this place will help you to learn common words in Hausa language easily. 1000 words are used in daily life conversations, so it is very important to learn all words in English and Hausa.

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1000 most common Hausa words
Here is the list of 1000 most important common words in Hausa language.
Ability | iyawa |
About | game da |
Above | sama |
Abuse | zagi |
Accept | yarda |
Access | samun dama |
Achieve | cimma |
Acknowledge | amince |
Acquire | saya |
Across | fadin |
Act | yi |
Action | aiki |
Activity | aiki |
Actually | a zahiri |
Adapt | daidaita |
Add | ƙara |
Adjust | daidaita |
Administration | gudanarwa |
Admire | yaba |
Admit | yarda |
Adopt | rungumi |
Adore | kauna |
Adult | babba |
Advance | ci gaba |
Affect | shafi |
Afford | iyawa |
After | bayan |
Again | sake |
Against | a kan |
Age | shekaru |
Agency | hukumar |
Agree | yarda |
Air | iska |
Allow | ba da izini |
Almost | kusan |
Along | tare |
Already | riga |
Although | ko da yake |
Always | koyaushe |
Among | tsakanin |
Amount | adadi |
Analysis | bincike |
Anger | fushi |
Animal | dabba |
Another | wani |
Answer | amsa |
Anyone | kowa |
Anything | komai |
Apologize | yi hakuri |
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Appeal | roko |
Appear | bayyana |
Apply | nema |
Appreciate | godiya |
Approve | yarda |
Area | yanki |
Argue | jayayya |
Arise | tashi |
Around | kewaye |
Arrange | shirya |
Arrive | isa |
Art | fasaha |
Article | labarin |
Artist | mai zane |
Ask | tambaya |
Assist | taimaka |
Associate | abokin tarayya |
Assume | ɗauka |
Assure | tabbatar |
Attach | haɗe |
Attack | kai hari |
Attempt | ƙoƙari |
Attend | halarci |
Attention | hankali |
Attract | jawo hankali |
Author | marubuci |
Available | samuwa |
Avoid | kaucewa |
Away | tafi |
Baby | jariri |
Back | baya |
Bad | mara kyau |
Bake | gasa |
Balance | ma’auni |
Ball | kwallon |
Bank | banki |
Base | tushe |
Battle | yaƙi |
Bear | bear |
Beat | doke |
Beautiful | kyau |
Because | saboda |
Become | zama |
Bed | gado |
Been | kasance |
Before | kafin |
Begin | fara |
Behavior | hali |
Behind | a baya |
Being | kasancewa |
Believe | yi imani |
Belong | mallakar |
Bend | tanƙwara |
Benefit | amfana |
Best | mafi kyau |
Better | mafi kyau |
Between | tsakanin |
Beyond | bayan |
Big | babba |
Blame | zargi |
Block | toshe |
Blood | jini |
Blow | busa |
Board | jirgi |
Body | jiki |
Book | littafi |
Born | haifaffen |
Borrow | aro |
Box | akwati |
Boy | yaro |
Break | karya |
Bring | kawo |
Brush | goga |
Building | gini |
Burn | ƙone |
Burst | fashe |
Business | kasuwanci |
Call | kira |
Camera | kamara |
Campaign | kamfen |
Cancel | soke |
Candidate | dan takara |
Care | kula |
Career | sana’a |
Carry | ɗauka |
Case | hali |
Cash | tsabar kudi |
Catch | kama |
Cause | sanadin |
Celebrate | yi biki |
Center | tsakiya |
Century | karni |
Certain | tabbatacce |
Chair | kujera |
Challenge | kalubale |
Chance | dama |
Change | canza |
Character | hali |
Charge | caji |
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Chart | ginshiƙi |
Check | duba |
Child | yaro |
Choice | zabi |
Choose | zabi |
City | birni |
Claim | da’awa |
Class | aji |
Clean | tsabta |
Clear | bayyana |
Close | kusa |
Cold | sanyi |
Collect | tattara |
College | kwaleji |
Color | launi |
Combine | hada |
Come | zo |
Command | umarni |
Comment | sharhi |
Common | na kowa |
Communicate | sadarwa |
Community | al’umma |
Company | kamfanin |
Compare | kwatanta |
Complete | kammala |
Computer | kwamfuta |
Concentrate | mai da hankali |
Concern | damuwa |
Condition | yanayin |
Conference | taro |
Confirm | tabbatar |
Conflict | rikici |
Congress | majalisa |
Connect | haɗa |
Consider | yi la’akari |
Consist | kunshi |
Consult | shawara |
Contact | lamba |
Contain | dauke da |
Content | abun ciki |
Contest | gasa |
Continue | ci gaba |
Contribute | ba da gudummawa |
Control | iko |
Convert | tuba |
Convince | shawo |
Cook | dafa |
Copy | kwafi |
Correct | daidai |
Cost | farashi |
Couple | ma’aurata |
Course | hanya |
Court | kotu |
Cover | murfin |
Crack | fashe |
Craft | sana’a |
Crash | karo |
Create | ƙirƙiri |
Credit | daraja |
Crew | ƙungiya |
Crime | aikata laifi |
Criticize | zargi |
Cross | giciye |
Cry | kuka |
Culture | al’ada |
Current | na yanzu |
Curve | kwana |
Cycle | sake zagayowar |
Damage | lalacewa |
Dance | rawa |
Dark | duhu |
Data | bayanai |
Date | kwanan wata |
Day | rana |
Dead | mutu |
Deal | yarjejeniyar |
Death | mutuwa |
Debate | muhawara |
Decade | shekaru goma |
Decide | yanke shawara |
Decision | yanke shawara |
Deep | mai zurfi |
Defense | tsaro |
Degree | digiri |
Delay | jinkiri |
Deliver | isar |
Demand | buƙata |
Democrat | dimokuradiyya |
Democratic | dimokuradiyya |
Deny | musu |
Depend | dogara |
Describe | kwatanta |
Deserve | cancanci |
Design | zane |
Desire | sha’awa |
Despite | duk da |
Destroy | halaka |
Determine | ƙayyade |
Develop | ci gaba |
Development | ci gaba |
Die | mutu |
Different | daban |
Difficult | da wahala |
Direction | shugabanci |
Director | darekta |
Discipline | horo |
Discount | rangwame |
Discover | gano |
Discuss | tattauna |
Disease | cuta |
Display | nuni |
Distance | nisa |
Distribute | rarraba |
Divide | raba |
Doctor | likita |
Dog | kare |
Door | ƙofar |
Down | ƙasa |
Draft | daftarin |
Drag | ja |
Draw | zana |
Dream | mafarki |
Dress | ado |
Drink | sha |
Drive | tuki |
Drop | sauke |
Drug | miyagun ƙwayoyi |
Dry | bushe |
Each | kowanne |
Early | da wuri |
Earn | sami |
Ease | sauƙi |
East | gabas |
Easy | sauki |
Eat | ci |
Economy | tattalin arziki |
Edge | baki |
Education | ilimi |
Effect | sakamako |
Election | zabe |
Employ | yi aiki |
Encourage | ƙarfafa |
End | ƙare |
Energy | makamashi |
Engage | shiga |
Enhance | inganta |
Enjoy | ji daɗi |
Enough | isa |
Ensure | tabbatar |
Environment | muhalli |
Escape | tsere |
Especially | musamman |
Essay | muqala |
Establish | kafa |
Estimate | kimantawa |
Evening | maraice |
Event | taron |
Ever | har abada |
Every | kowane |
Everybody | kowa da kowa |
Everyone | kowa da kowa |
Everything | komai |
Evidence | shaida |
Exactly | daidai |
Examine | bincika |
Example | misali |
Exchange | musayar |
Excuse | uzuri |
Executive | zartarwa |
Exercise | motsa jiki |
Exist | wanzu |
Expand | fadada |
Expect | jira |
Experience | kwarewa |
Expert | gwani |
Explain | bayyana |
Explore | bincika |
Expose | fallasa |
Express | bayyana |
Extend | mika |
Eye | ido |
Face | fuska |
Fact | gaskiya |
Factor | factor |
Fail | kasa |
Fall | faduwa |
Family | iyali |
Fear | tsoro |
Federal | tarayya |
Feed | ciyarwa |
Feel | ji |
Few | kaɗan |
Field | filin |
Fight | fada |
Figure | adadi |
Film | fim |
Final | karshe |
Financial | na kudi |
Find | nemo |
Fine | lafiya |
Finish | gama |
Fire | wuta |
Fish | kifi |
Fit | dace |
Floor | kasa |
Flow | kwarara |
Fly | tashi |
Focus | mayar da hankali |
Fold | ninka |
Follow | bi |
Food | abinci |
Foot | kafa |
Force | karfi |
Forget | manta |
Forgive | gafarta |
Form | tsari |
Former | tsohon |
Forward | gaba |
Frame | firam |
Free | kyauta |
Freeze | daskare |
Friend | aboki |
Front | gaba |
Fry | soya |
Full | cika |
Fund | asusu |
Future | nan gaba |
Gain | riba |
Game | wasa |
Gap | rata |
Gather | tara |
General | janar |
Get | samu |
Girl | yarinya |
Give | ba |
Glass | gilashi |
Glove | safar hannu |
Goal | burin |
Good | mai kyau |
Government | gwamnati |
Great | mai girma |
Ground | ƙasa |
Group | rukuni |
Grow | girma |
Growth | girma |
Guard | mai gadi |
Guess | tsammani |
Guide | jagora |
Gun | bindiga |
Hair | gashi |
Half | rabi |
Hand | hannu |
Handle | rike |
Hang | rataya |
Happen | faru |
Happy | mai farin ciki |
Hard | da wuya |
Harm | cutarwa |
Hate | ƙiyayya |
Head | kai |
Health | lafiya |
Hear | ji |
Heart | zuciya |
Heat | zafi |
Help | taimako |
Hesitate | yi shakka |
Hide | buya |
High | babba |
Highlight | haskaka |
Hire | haya |
History | tarihi |
Hit | buga |
Hold | riƙe |
Home | gida |
Hope | bege |
Hospital | asibiti |
Host | mai masaukin baki |
Hot | zafi |
Hour | awa |
House | gida |
Huge | babba |
Human | mutum |
Hurry | yi sauri |
Hurt | rauni |
Husband | miji |
Idea | ra’ayi |
Identify | gane |
Ignore | yi watsi |
Illustrate | kwatanta |
Image | hoto |
Imagine | yi tunanin |
Impact | tasiri |
Implement | aiwatarwa |
Imply | nufa |
Important | mai mahimmanci |
Impress | burge |
Improve | inganta |
Include | hada da |
Incorporate | haɗawa |
Increase | karuwa |
Indicate | nuna |
Individual | mutum |
Industry | masana’antu |
Influence | tasiri |
Inform | sanar |
Information | bayanai |
Inside | ciki |
Install | shigar |
Instead | maimakon |
Institution | ma’aikata |
Interest | sha’awa |
International | na kasa da kasa |
Interview | hira |
Introduce | gabatar |
Invest | zuba jari |
Investigate | bincika |
Invite | gayyata |
Involve | shiga |
Iron | baƙin ƙarfe |
Issue | fitowar |
Job | aiki |
Join | shiga |
Joke | wargi |
Judge | alkali |
Jump | tsalle |
Just | kawai |
Keep | kiyaye |
Kick | shura |
Kid | yaro |
Kill | kashe |
Kiss | sumbata |
Knit | saƙa |
Know | sani |
Knowledge | ilmi |
Lack | rashin |
Land | ƙasa |
Language | harshe |
Large | babba |
Last | karshe |
Late | marigayi |
Laugh | dariya |
Law | doka |
Leader | shugaba |
Learn | koyi |
Leave | tafi |
Left | hagu |
Leg | kafa |
Legal | doka |
Lend | ara |
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Less | Kadan |
Letter | harafi |
Level | matakin |
Life | rayuwa |
Lift | dagawa |
Light | haske |
Like | kamar |
Limit | iyaka |
Line | layi |
Lip | lebe |
List | jerin |
Listen | saurare |
Little | kadan |
Live | rayu |
Load | kaya |
Local | na gida |
Lock | kulle |
Long | tsawo |
Look | duba |
Loss | asara |
Lost | rasa |
Love | soyayya |
Low | low |
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Main | babba |
Maintain | kula |
Major | babba |
Make | yi |
Manage | sarrafa |
Manager | manaja |
Manufacturing | masana’antu |
Many | da yawa |
Market | kasuwa |
Match | wasa |
Material | abu |
Matter | al’amari |
Mean | nufi |
Measure | ma’auni |
Media | kafofin watsa labarai |
Medical | likita |
Meet | hadu |
Member | mamba |
Memory | ƙwaƙwalwar ajiya |
Mention | ambaci |
Message | sako |
Middle | tsakiya |
Military | soja |
Mind | hankali |
Minute | minti |
Mistake | kuskure |
Model | samfurin |
Moment | lokacin |
Money | kudi |
Month | wata |
More | Kara |
Morning | safiya |
Most | mafi |
Move | motsa |
Movie | fim |
Much | da yawa |
Music | kiɗa |
Must | dole |
Myself | kaina |
Name | suna |
Nation | al’umma |
Nature | yanayi |
Near | kusa |
Necessary | dole |
Need | bukata |
Neglect | sakaci |
Negotiate | tattauna |
Nerve | jijiya |
Network | cibiyar sadarwa |
Never | taba |
New | sabo |
Next | na gaba |
Nice | kyau |
Night | dare |
No | a’a |
North | arewa |
Not | ba |
Note | bayanin kula |
Nothing | ba komai |
Notice | sanarwa |
Now | yanzu |
Number | lamba |
Obtain | samu |
Occur | faruwa |
Offer | tayin |
Office | ofis |
Often | sau da yawa |
Oil | mai |
Old | tsoho |
Once | sau ɗaya |
Only | kawai |
Open | bude |
Operate | aiki |
Opportunity | dama |
Order | oda |
Organize | shirya |
Other | sauran |
Out | fita |
Outside | waje |
Over | ya wuce |
Own | mallaka |
Pack | shirya |
Page | shafi |
Pain | zafi |
Paint | fenti |
Paper | takarda |
Parent | iyaye |
Park | wurin shakatawa |
Party | jam’iyyar |
Pass | wuce |
Past | baya |
Patient | mai haƙuri |
Pattern | juna |
Pause | dakata |
Pay | biya |
Peace | zaman lafiya |
People | mutane |
Perfect | cikakke |
Perhaps | watakila |
Period | lokaci |
Permit | izni |
Person | mutum |
Personal | na sirri |
Persuade | lallashe |
Phone | waya |
Physical | jiki |
Pick | karba |
Picture | hoto |
Piece | yanki |
Pin | fil |
Pitch | farar |
Place | wuri |
Plan | shirin |
Plant | shuka |
Plate | farantin |
Play | wasa |
Please | Don Allah |
Point | batu |
Police | ‘yan sanda |
Policy | siyasa |
Political | siyasa |
Poor | matalauci |
Popular | mashahuri |
Population | yawan jama’a |
Position | matsayi |
Possible | mai yiwuwa |
Post | aikawa |
Pot | tukunya |
Pour | zuba |
Power | iko |
Prefer | fi son |
Prepare | shirya |
Present | gabatar |
Press | latsa |
Pressure | matsi |
Pretty | kyakkyawa |
Prevent | hana |
Price | farashin |
Pride | girman kai |
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Private | masu zaman kansu |
Probably | mai yiwuwa |
Problem | matsala |
Process | tsari |
Produce | kera |
Product | samfurin |
Professor | farfesa |
Program | shirin |
Project | aikin |
Promise | alkawari |
Prompt | m |
Property | dukiya |
Propose | ba da shawara |
Protect | kare |
Prove | tabbatar |
Provide | ba da |
Public | jama’a |
Pull | ja |
Punch | naushi |
Purchase | saya |
Purpose | manufar |
Pursue | bi |
Push | tura |
Put | saka |
Quality | inganci |
Question | tambaya |
Quick | mai sauri |
Quit | sallama |
Race | tsere |
Radio | rediyo |
Rain | ruwan sama |
Raise | tada |
Range | kewayon |
Rate | ƙima |
Rather | maimakon |
Reach | isa |
React | amsa |
Read | karanta |
Ready | shirye |
Real | haqiqa |
Realize | gane |
Really | gaske |
Reason | dalili |
Receive | karba |
Recent | kwanan nan |
Recently | kwanan nan |
Recognize | gane |
Recommend | ba da shawara |
Record | rikodin |
Recover | warke |
Reduce | rage |
Refer | koma |
Reflect | yin tunani |
Refuse | ƙi |
Region | yanki |
Register | yi rijista |
Regret | nadama |
Relationship | dangantaka |
Relax | Huta |
Release | saki |
Relieve | sauƙaƙe |
Remain | kasance |
Remember | tuna |
Remind | tunatarwa |
Remove | cire |
Rent | haya |
Repair | gyara |
Repeat | maimaita |
Replace | musanya |
Reply | amsa |
Report | rahoto |
Represent | wakilci |
Request | roƙo |
Require | bukata |
Research | bincike |
Reserve | ajiye |
Resist | tsayayya |
Resolve | warware |
Resort | mafaka |
Resource | hanya |
Respect | girmamawa |
Respond | amsa |
Response | amsa |
Rest | huta |
Result | sakamakon |
Retain | riƙe |
Retire | yi ritaya |
Return | dawo |
Reveal | bayyana |
Review | bita |
Reward | sakamako |
Ride | hau |
Right | daidai |
Ring | zobe |
Rise | tashi |
Risk | hadarin |
Road | hanya |
Rock | dutse |
Role | rawar |
Room | daki |
Rule | mulki |
Run | gudu |
Rush | gaggauta |
Sail | tafiya |
Same | iri daya |
Save | ajiye |
Say | ce |
Scene | scene |
School | makaranta |
Science | kimiyya |
Scratch | karce |
Script | rubutun |
Sea | teku |
Search | bincika |
Season | kakar |
Seat | wurin zama |
Second | na biyu |
Section | sashe |
Security | tsaro |
Seek | nema |
Seem | alama |
Select | zaɓi |
Sell | sayar |
Send | aika |
Sense | hankali |
Separate | raba |
Series | jerin |
Serious | mai tsanani |
Serve | yi hidima |
Service | hidima |
Set | saita |
Settle | shirya |
Several | da yawa |
Shake | girgiza |
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Share | raba |
Shine | haske |
Ship | jirgi |
Shock | girgiza |
Shoot | harba |
Short | gajere |
Shoulder | kafada |
Show | nuna |
Shower | shawa |
Side | gefe |
Sign | sa hannu |
Significant | muhimmanci |
Similar | makamantan haka |
Simple | sauki |
Sing | raira waƙa |
Single | guda ɗaya |
Sit | zauna |
Site | shafin |
Situation | halin da ake ciki |
Size | girma |
Skill | fasaha |
Sleep | barci |
Slice | yanki |
Slide | zamewa |
Slip | zamewa |
Small | karami |
Smell | wari |
Smile | murmushi |
Smoke | hayaki |
Social | zamantakewa |
Society | al’umma |
Solve | warware |
Some | wasu |
Something | wani abu |
Sometimes | wani lokacin |
Song | waƙa |
Soon | nan da nan |
Sort | irin |
Sound | sauti |
Source | tushe |
South | kudu |
Space | sarari |
Speak | magana |
Special | na musamman |
Specific | takamaiman |
Speed | gudun |
Spell | sihiri |
Spend | kashe |
Spirit | ruhu |
Spite | mugunta |
Split | tsaga |
Sport | wasanni |
Spot | tabo |
Spray | fesa |
Spread | yaɗa |
Spring | bazara |
Stable | barga |
Staff | ma’aikata |
Stage | mataki |
Stand | tsaya |
Standard | ma’auni |
Star | tauraro |
Start | fara |
Statement | sanarwa |
Station | tasha |
Stay | zauna |
Step | mataki |
Stick | sanda |
Still | har yanzu |
Stock | hannun jari |
Stop | tsaya |
Store | shago |
Story | labari |
Strain | iri |
Strategy | dabarun |
Street | titi |
Stretch | mikewa |
Strike | yajin aiki |
String | kirtani |
Strip | tsiri |
Stroke | bugun jini |
Strong | karfi |
Structure | tsari |
Struggle | gwagwarmaya |
Student | dalibi |
Study | karatu |
Stuff | kaya |
Style | salo |
Subject | batun |
Submit | sallama |
Success | nasara |
Suddenly | kwatsam |
Suffer | sha wahala |
Suggest | ba da shawara |
Summer | rani |
Supply | wadata |
Support | goyon baya |
Suppose | zato |
Sure | tabbata |
Surprise | mamaki |
Surround | kewaye |
Survey | binciken |
Suspect | wanda ake zargi |
Swim | iyo |
Switch | canzawa |
System | tsarin |
Table | tebur |
Take | dauka |
Talk | magana |
Tank | tanki |
Tap | famfo |
Taste | dandana |
Tax | haraji |
Teach | koyar |
Teacher | malami |
Team | tawagar |
Tear | hawaye |
Technology | fasaha |
Television | talabijin |
Tell | gaya |
Tend | karkata |
Term | ajali |
Test | gwaji |
Text | rubutu |
Thank | na gode |
Theory | ka’idar |
There | can |
Thing | abu |
Think | yi tunani |
Thought | tunani |
Thousand | dubu |
Throw | jefa |
Time | lokaci |
Today | yau |
Together | tare |
Top | saman |
Touch | tabawa |
Tour | yawon shakatawa |
Toward | zuwa |
Town | gari |
Trade | kasuwanci |
Traditional | na gargajiya |
Traffic | zirga -zirga |
Train | jirgin kasa |
Training | horo |
Translate | fassara |
Trash | datti |
Travel | tafiya |
Treat | bi da |
Treatment | magani |
Tree | itace |
Trial | fitina |
Trip | tafiya |
Trouble | matsala |
Truck | babbar mota |
Trust | dogara |
Truth | gaskiya |
Try | gwada |
Turn | juya |
Twist | karkatar |
Type | irin |
Under | ƙarƙashin |
Understand | fahimta |
Unit | naúrar |
Until | har sai |
Up | sama |
Upon | akan |
Upset | haushi |
Use | amfani |
Usually | yawanci |
Vacuum | injin |
Value | darajar |
View | duba |
Visit | ziyarci |
Voice | murya |
Wait | jira |
Wake | farka |
Walk | tafiya |
Wall | bango |
Want | so |
War | yaki |
Warn | yi gargaɗi |
Wash | wanke |
Waste | sharar gida |
Watch | duba |
Water | ruwa |
Wave | kalaman |
Way | hanya |
Weapon | makami |
Wear | saka |
Week | mako |
Weight | nauyi |
Well | da kyau |
Whole | duka |
Wide | fadi |
Wife | matar aure |
Window | taga |
Wonder | mamaki |
Word | kalma |
Work | aiki |
World | duniya |
Worry | damu |
Wrap | kunsa |
Write | rubuta |
Wrong | kuskure |
Year | shekara |
Yes | iya |
Young | matashi |
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