Chikunda English

want

(Shona) -geza

close

(Shona) rini

push

(Shona) mutsipa

alone

noun yellow (colour)

kick

(Shona) nyama

verb drink

tear

(Shona) -mbururuka

every

adjective new

hold

(Shona) gwati

verb lie (on side, recline)

find

(Shona) -pfupi

play

(Shona) tsoka

wet, become

(Shona) -verenga, -rava

bucks

bats

elder sister

husbands

fathers

paternal aunts

backbone

(Shona) mwedzi

lizard

pronoun all (of a number)

possible

impossible

ghosts

nests

knives

fourth

true (not false)

cough

(Shona) mhepo

hundred

banana

have breakfast

(Shona) nyana

verb (imperative) kill

Speaker: Robert Chimbiti

noun mouth

fourteen

give birth

(Shona) murume

hungry

lie (down)

(Shona) muswe

copulate (have sex with)

(Shona) ese

beautiful

adjective big

have itch

(Shona) sango

adjective round

right

drunk, get

(Shona) shanu

ducks

west

forty

verb tomorrow

priests

money

verb, transitive embers

buttocks

(Shona) jecha

ladder

ladders

summer

chicken eggs

axes

stones

horns

villages

spears

impala

poor

in

daughter-in-law

verb stone

son

virgin

branch

beard

(Shona) kunaya

I don’t see you

verb intr. path (road, trail; not street)

jackal

better

chickens

pigs

eagles

noun seed

days

eyebrow

(Shona) -tsvuku

snakes

break

(Shona) va

numeral two

numeral one

monkey

friends

adjective long (not ’wide’)

throw away

(Shona) -garira

thin

cheek

(Shona) huruva

escape

(Shona) -reba

at night

rainbow

babies

daughters

hive