Hausa Paper 2, May/June 2010

Questions:	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	Main

General Comments
Weakness/Remedies
Strength Conclusion

Question 4

((a) Mene ne jinsi hadaku?
(b) Rarrabe wadannan sunaye zuwa jinsin maza da na mata da na hadaka.
l. buhu                           V11.   kofa
11. agola                          VllJ.    bante
111. rami                           lX.      Gambo
lV. sama                          x.         mota
v.   auta                           xi.        gida
vi. rana                           xii        shugaba

(a)Define a Neutral Gender
(b)Separate these nouns into masculine gender, feminine gender and neutral gender.

1.	buhu	V11.	kofa
11.	agola	VllJ.	bante
111.	rami	IX.	Gamba
IV.	sama	X.	mota
v.	auta	Xl.	gida
Vl.	rana	X11.	shugaba

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Observation

Candidates were required to identify what a neutral gender is and to separate the nouns as required in (b) above.
Thus: Jinsi Hadaka nau'i ne na jinsi wanda ka iya wakiltar mace ko namiji.
The words in (b) above can be grouped as:

Maza	Mata	Hadaka
buhu	rana	agola
rami	kofa	shugaba
gida	mota	auta
		d.s.

Many candidates attempted the question and their performance was encouraging.