Chikunda English

understand

(Shona) -pa

leave

(Shona) nyanga

breathe

(Shona) ino

open

(Shona) muromo, mukanwa

alone

stab

(Shona) -cheka, -kuma

talk

(Shona) -shambira

verb fly

hit

(Shona) mudzi

kick

(Shona) nyama

pay

(Shona) rurimi

hold

(Shona) gwati

spit

(Shona) -rwa

remain

(Shona) chitaka

choose

(Shona) kupi

play

(Shona) tsoka

begin

(Shona) ndi, ini

try

(Shona) -pota

sing

(Shona) -funga

cocks

owls

bats

virgins

spiders

paternal grandfathers

buck

blunt (knife)

second

true (not false)

hat

ghost

chest

(Shona) gore

garden

noun eye

noun tooth (front, rather than molar)

verb (imperative) walk

Speaker: Robert Chimbiti

deaf

young bird

noun neck (not nape)

know each other

(Shona) mafuta

strong

adjective big

have itch

(Shona) sango

rub

(Shona) kudya, -dya

urinate (piss)

(Shona) -dvinya

save

(Shona) -pfira

adjective round

flower

diarrhea

(Shona) moto

names (family)

bones

(Shona) gungwa

verb gardens

noun grease (fat, organic substance)

combs

weeks

ladder

magic

excrement

(Shona) gomo

zebras

mosquito

noun dog

(Shona) imbwa

Speaker: Robert Chimbiti

farms

villages

caves

impalas

lightning

noun air

lion

noun boy

noun tree (not log)

hippopotamus

husband

daughter

high

and

I gave you the money

beards

(Shona) rwizi

goose

young

warthog

wife

deaths

(Shona) hutsi

noun head (anatomic)

bags

lice, head

noun louse

every day

tusks

lake

bee

near

if

verb pipe

Goodbye

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

Speaker: Robert Chimbiti

bowstring

escape

(Shona) -reba

noun leaf (botanics)

brother-in-law

honey