Chikunda English

cut

(Shona) shoma

noun white (colour)

want

(Shona) -geza

noun red (colour)

push

(Shona) mutsipa

live

(Shona) mvere

verb sit

happy

fast

verb bite

verb fat

all

verb give

noun burn

break

(Shona) imi

count

(Shona) zhinji

try

(Shona) -pota

yawn

(Shona) -imba

be blind

bulls

leopards

no

maternal uncles

lizard

undress

(Shona) -bata, -pfunda

valleys

old

dead body

frog

garden

noun egg

name

noun tooth (front, rather than molar)

noun blood

have breakfast

(Shona) nyana

you (pl)

thousand

eleven

press

(Shona) dumbu

sad

verb eat

short

frightened

deep

sharpen

(Shona) -ziva

killed, be

(Shona) ropa

dirty

far

sweet

sharp

urinate (piss)

(Shona) -dvinya

right

noun bull

drunk, get

(Shona) shanu

cry

(Shona) amwe

names

sixty

arms

(Shona) zuva

feathers

ladders

hyenas

axe

birds

zebras

mosquitoes

noun dog

trails

villages

impalas

lightning

broom

winter

You’re Welcome

husband

Yesterday I saw you

widow

noun claw

Tomorrow I will not see you

warthog

female

stories

pigs

tribe

bag

louse, head

days

every day

roofs

singer

bees

enemy

rhinoceros

trap

(Shona) -sumuka, -simuka, -mira

elbows

(Shona) rhodhi

there

brain

(Shona) nyanza

powerful

yes

have children

(Shona) imbwa

hive