Chikunda English

hide

(Shona) shizha

adjective good

noun white (colour)

leave

(Shona) nyanga

verb die

fear

(Shona) -kora

fall

(Shona) -fara

verb sit

fast

talk

(Shona) -shambira

hit

(Shona) mudzi

verb lie (on side, recline)

vomit

(Shona) -kwiza

laugh

(Shona) zai

verb see

hard

try

(Shona) -pota

cocks

tortoises

women

leopards

fathers

how many

adjective many

fourth

which

noun ash(es)

verb (imperative) walk

Speaker: Robert Chimbiti

noun blood

pronoun 1.sg I

he

elbow

(Shona) -pisa

young bird

noun mouth

twelve

noun ear

have diarrhea

(Shona) nyoka

hungry

bleed

(Shona) iwe

sad

scared

swell

(Shona) -kwenya, -kwara

dawn

sneeze

(Shona) -rara

deep

narrow

far

ripe

wash hair

(Shona) -zvuva, -dhonza

wide

flow

(Shona) mukadzi

adjective round

drunk, get

(Shona) shanu

when

shells

ducks

noun water

verb words

bananas

forty

fifty

ears

(Shona) dota

grave

cheeks

(Shona) ivhu, pasi

summer

hives

languages

impalas

lion

in

bride

noun boy

verb, transitive farm

verb stone

baby

fruit

white ant (termite)

virgin

and

younger sister

I will give you the money

I don’t see you

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

female

jackals

guinea fowls

(fire)wood

old person

groom

day

every day

eyebrows

(Shona) -girini

Dialect: English loanword

roof

meat

noun mountain (not hill)

monkey

eight

noun hair (on head of humans)

nets

rainbow