Chikunda English

cut

(Shona) shoma

noun white (colour)

verb die

push

(Shona) mutsipa

alone

make

(Shona) musoro

prepare

(Shona) ruoko

stab

(Shona) -cheka, -kuma

speak

(Shona) -uraya

dream

finish

(Shona) -dete, -nhete, -sunhu

break

(Shona) imi

butterfly

lizards

crabs

farmers

elder brother

maternal aunt

pregnant

rhinoceroses

monkeys

adverb not

mothers-in-law

sisters

paternal uncles

paternal aunts

backbone

(Shona) mwedzi

songs

impossible

huge

ghost

dead body

garden

noun eye

noun eye

hundred

owl

noun tooth (front, rather than molar)

word

they

deaf

eleven

fifteen

noun rain

sad

silent

have itch

(Shona) sango

far

wide

float

(Shona) -onda

right

drunk, get

(Shona) shanu

when

flower

shells

twenty

dreams

graves

question who?

wells

noun belly (lower part of body, abdomen)

farms

stones

languages

impalas

trail

three

hippopotamuses

verb stone

months

white ant (termite)

dark

ants

branch

elands

I did not give you the money

cow

I know

jackal

guinea fowls

better

day after tomorrow

pythons

lice, body

girl

days

every day

stars

because

ground

noun mountain (not hill)

week

adjective long (not ’wide’)

pond

brother-in-law

elbows

(Shona) rhodhi

honey

wool

red ants

both