solidity – Hardhat error TS6046: Argument for ‘–module’ option must be: ‘none’, ‘commonjs’, ‘amd’, ‘system’, ‘umd’, ‘es6’, ‘es2015’, ‘es2020’, ‘esnext’

Im having a problem with a repository. Whenever i try and run any hardhat command i get the below error.

user@users-MacBook-Pro internal-repo % node --version
v16.20.2
user@users-MacBook-Pro internal-repo % npm --version
8.19.4
user@users-MacBook-Pro internal-repo % npx --version
8.19.4
user@users-MacBook-Pro internal-repo % npx hardhat compile
An unexpected error occurred:

error TS6046: Argument for '--module' option must be: 'none', 'commonjs', 'amd', 'system', 'umd', 'es6', 'es2015', 'es2020', 'esnext'.