Chikunda English

understand

(Shona) -pa

return

(Shona) -nwa

bury

(Shona) pano

verb sit

happy

make

(Shona) musoro

stab

(Shona) -cheka, -kuma

verb fly

fight

(Shona) -diki

kick

(Shona) nyama

verb drink

little

play

(Shona) tsoka

noun burn

help

(Shona) muchero

throw

(Shona) -zorora

chew

(Shona) chii

hard

butterfly

cockroaches

boys

maternal aunt

maternal grandmother

paternal grandmother

virgins

maternal uncle

noun bone

Speaker: Robert Chimbiti

coughs

(Shona) sino

Dialect: English loanword

ghosts

nests

adjective many

third

eyes

(Shona) -dema

noun egg

owl

noun sun

noun blood

pronoun this

pronoun that

pronoun 1.sg I

they

go to sleep

(Shona) mhuka

young bird

ten

lie (in ambush)

(Shona) nhenga

need

(Shona) nzeve

short

dawn

pregnant, be

(Shona) ibvi

rub

(Shona) kudya, -dya

wash hands

(Shona) -sunda, -sandidzira

ripe

urinate (piss)

(Shona) -dvinya

boats

verb gardens

eighty

sixty

dreams

chief

five hundred

noun bird

Speaker: Robert Chimbiti

noun belly (lower part of body, abdomen)

farms

stones

brooms

spears

impala

lightning

noun air

daughter-in-law

verb, transitive farm

moons

fruit

Yesterday I saw you

younger sister

flies

puddles

I don’t know

warthogs

back

(Shona) jenaguru

hunter

roof

noun flesh (meat)

meat

elephants

because

rhinoceros

nine

numeral one

monkey

hunt

(Shona) tambo

flat

spider

why

hyena

now

noun hair (on head of humans)

red ant

grass

people