Chikunda English

verb come

noun white (colour)

adjective cold (of weather)

make

(Shona) musoro

verb bite

verb fly

kick

(Shona) nyama

kiss

(Shona) bvupa

little

smell

(Shona) -tya

hold

(Shona) gwati

verb lie (on side, recline)

find

(Shona) -pfupi

choose

(Shona) kupi

answer

go

(Shona) baba

do

(Shona) piri

bucks

lizards

grooms

farmers

paternal grandmother

crocodiles

elder brothers

maternal grandmothers

maternal uncles

maternal grandfathers

noun bark (of tree)

butterflies

cockroach

coughs

(Shona) sino

Dialect: English loanword

nests

dead bodies

shell

Excuse Me

hundred

noun egg

owl

gold

pronoun that

go to sleep

(Shona) mhuka

stick

thousand

fourteen

fifteen

noun ear

press

(Shona) dumbu

short

scratch

(Shona) -rutsa

squeeze

(Shona) -rova, -bhura

boiled

pass the night

(Shona) zino

urinate (piss)

(Shona) -dvinya

wide

noun water

noun grease (fat, organic substance)

ninety

fifty

grave

brother

twin

weeks

breasts

(Shona) ibwe

buttocks

(Shona) jecha

cheeks

(Shona) ivhu, pasi

question who?

seeds

impalas

poor

lion

lions

hippopotamus

moons

and

claws

eland

Please

geese

I will give you the money

Tomorrow I will not see you

I see you

old people

jackals

stories

chickens

noun seed

days

eyebrow

(Shona) -tsvuku

buffaloes

noun star

bee

kudus

ground

how

phrase we are burnt with air (the phrase a groom uses to ask for a bride to come with him)

Speaker: Robert Chimbiti

flat

You did not see me

brains

(Shona) munyu

grass

people