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Hausa Fruits & Vegetables

This is a list of fruits and vegetables in Hausa. Knowing these plants can be helpful when shopping in a grocery store or even restaurant.

Lemons: Lemon tsami
Apples: tuffa
Oranges: lemu
Peaches: Inabi
Figs:
Pears: fiya
Pineapples: Abarba
Grapes: Inibi
Strawberries:
Bananas: ayaba
Watermelon: kankana
Avocados:

Now here is the list of some commonly used vegetables:

Carrots : karas
Corn: dawa
Cucumbers: gurji
Garlic: tafarnuwa
Lettuce: ganyen letus
Olives: man zaitun
Onions: albasa
Peppers: tattasai
Potatoes: dankali
Pumpkin: kabewa
Beans: Wake
Tomatoes: tumatir

The following sentences include some fruits and vegetables mentioned above to show you how you can use them in your daily conversation.

This fruit is delicious: Wannan dan itacen yana da dadi
Vegetables are healthy: Ya'yan itatuwa na bada lafiya
I like bananas: Ina son ayaba--
I don't like cucumber: Ba na son gurji
Bananas taste sweet: Ayaba na da zaki
Lemons taste sour: Lemon tsami na da tsami

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