Chikunda English

cut

(Shona) shoma

leave

(Shona) nyanga

verb die

want

(Shona) -geza

close

(Shona) rini

noun red (colour)

push

(Shona) mutsipa

live

(Shona) mvere

fast

finish

(Shona) -dete, -nhete, -sunhu

fight

(Shona) -diki

kick

(Shona) nyama

other

smell

(Shona) -tya

count

(Shona) zhinji

go

(Shona) baba

bucks

brides

girls

maternal grandfather

no

mothers-in-law

sisters

valleys

first

old

noun liver

hundred

noun tooth (front, rather than molar)

gold

insect

thick

hidden

sky

straight

deep

raise

(Shona) zamu

sweet

rotten

flow

(Shona) mukadzi

adjective round

right

verb today

names

ducks

bones

(Shona) gungwa

east

noun water

bananas

forty

seventy

thirty

twenty

armpits

(Shona) -zvimba

brother

pipes

ladder

axe

noun bird

birds

mouse

tails

noun belly (lower part of body, abdomen)

noun air

lions

noun nose

salt

fruit

ant

with

younger sister

claws

I see you

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

female

wife

day after tomorrow

arrow

hunter

noun heart

(Shona) moyo

Speaker: Robert Chimbiti

days

basket

baskets

animal

noun flesh (meat)

lakes

buffaloes

stars

bees

huts

then

rhinoceros

verb stand

thin

cheek

(Shona) huruva

bowstrings

escape

(Shona) -reba

noun hair (on head of humans)

sticks

honey