Chikunda English

verb come

arrive

adjective cold (of weather)

alone

awake

dream

tie

(Shona) -gara

fight

(Shona) -diki

hit

(Shona) mudzi

kick

(Shona) nyama

choose

(Shona) kupi

take

(Shona) -chera, -tukumbam

verb see

hard

cockroaches

owls

turtles

men

father

no

cockroach

possible

dead bodies

adjective many

knife

noun ash(es)

yesterday

yesterday you did not see me

word

noun blood

he

elbow

(Shona) -pisa

river

tortoise

thick

hungry

noun rain

salivate

(Shona) -sveta

straight

lie (tell untruth)

(Shona) vhudzi

deep

rub

(Shona) kudya, -dya

sweet

urinate (piss)

(Shona) -dvinya

wash clothes

(Shona) -pukuta

noun tongue (anatomical)

combs

dreams

verb tomorrow

pipes

hail

feathers

ponds

chiefs

birds

mouse

farms

thorns

tribes

cave

lightning

in

farmer

worm

verb stone

month

younger sister

claws

eland

flies

I gave you the money

I will give you the money

old people

jackal

orphan

arrow

language

noun head (anatomic)

fish(es)

noun cloud (not fog)

pythons

day

eyebrows

(Shona) -girini

Dialect: English loanword

eyelash

(Shona) -yero

noun fish

baskets

animal

tusk

lake

bee

wing

numeral one

monkey

week

thin

insects

sticks

wool

red ant

male