Chikunda English

verb hear

return

(Shona) -nwa

noun white (colour)

breathe

(Shona) ino

burn

(Shona) iyo

fall

(Shona) -fara

adjective cold (of weather)

speak

(Shona) -uraya

hit

(Shona) mudzi

every

quiet, be

(Shona) musana

grind

(Shona) hove

noun black (colour)

remain

(Shona) chitaka

laugh

(Shona) zai

throw

(Shona) -zorora

bad

baboons

paternal grandmother

girls

maternal grandfather

brothers

younger brothers

younger sisters

grandchildren

buck

noun bone

lizard

songs

knives

dead bodies

ant hills

hat

knife

dead body

raw

bald

garden

chicken egg

blow

(Shona) a

year

you (pl)

chin

(Shona) mhute

young bird

noun ear

have fever

(Shona) gonye

perspire

(Shona) nzara

salivate

(Shona) -sveta

verb dead

swell

(Shona) -kwenya, -kwara

heavy

sister-in-law

pass the night

(Shona) zino

raise

(Shona) zamu

wash hair

(Shona) -zvuva, -dhonza

suck

(Shona) -baya, -junga

save

(Shona) -pfira

have hiccups

(Shona) muti

flower

seventy

younger brother

mountains

ladder

chiefs

thief

zebra

broom

farmer

month

months

dark

never

sister

eland

I did not give you the money

goose

drum

I will give you the money

wife

jackals

better

eagles

fish(es)

noun heart

(Shona) moyo

Speaker: Robert Chimbiti

girl

leopard

meat

buffaloes

bees

enter

(Shona) -hombe

eight

friends

adjective long (not ’wide’)

bowstring

why

noun breast (female)

(Shona) zamu

Speaker: Robert Chimbiti

chins

(Shona) denga

there

You did not see me

bow