Chikunda English

adjective full

close

(Shona) rini

sell

(Shona) -furidza

push

(Shona) mutsipa

verb sit

noun yellow (colour)

pull

(Shona) ura, matumbu

kick

(Shona) nyama

tear

(Shona) -mbururuka

quiet, be

(Shona) musana

noun hot (of weather)

stop

(Shona) -dambura

be blind

cockroaches

cocks

frogs

women

farmers

maternal aunt

men

crocodiles

father

spiders

sisters-in-law

maternal grandmothers

fathers

maternal uncles

boat

crab

pronoun all (of a number)

songs

how many

how much

possible

ghosts

adjective many

true (not false)

cough

(Shona) mhepo

huge

Excuse Me

hundred

noun egg

yesterday

blow

(Shona) a

pronoun this

tortoise

noun ear

know each other

(Shona) mafuta

scared

beautiful

cloudy

straight

squeeze

(Shona) -rova, -bhura

boiled

narrow

broken, be

poor, be

(Shona) gumbo

verb clean

urinate (piss)

(Shona) -dvinya

suck

(Shona) -baya, -junga

drunk, get

(Shona) shanu

east

seventy

ninety

twenty

grave

verb tomorrow

question who?

tails

noun belly (lower part of body, abdomen)

villages

noun fire

hole

hippopotamus

husband

moons

widow

cows

puddles

Tomorrow I will see you

chicken

old person

noun feather (large, not down)

lice, head

days

eyebrows

(Shona) -girini

Dialect: English loanword

noun fish

basket

ocean, sea

bee

here

noun mountain (not hill)

enter

(Shona) -hombe

five

how

six

flat

hyena

sticks

babies