Chikunda English

understand

(Shona) -pa

leave

(Shona) nyanga

noun red (colour)

burn

(Shona) iyo

pull

(Shona) ura, matumbu

awake

dream

tie

(Shona) -gara

kick

(Shona) nyama

tear

(Shona) -mbururuka

all

smell

(Shona) -tya

grind

(Shona) hove

verb lie (on side, recline)

take

(Shona) -chera, -tukumbam

sing

(Shona) -funga

elderly

sons-in-law

paternal grandmother

virgins

father

monkeys

sisters-in-law

brothers

maternal aunts

mothers-in-law

sisters

fathers-in-law

brothers-in-law

noun knee

how much

impossible

knives

fourth

cough

(Shona) mhepo

wind

bald

garden

pronoun this

have breakfast

(Shona) nyana

tortoise

stick

armpit

(Shona) -gwamba, -tonhodza

fishnet

prepared, be

(Shona) bapiro

sad

verb dead

copulate (have sex with)

(Shona) ese

swell

(Shona) -kwenya, -kwara

recognize

(Shona) moyo

sneeze

(Shona) -rara

have itch

(Shona) sango

wash hands

(Shona) -sunda, -sandidzira

sweet

sharp (knife)

verb clean

rotten

dried

when

flower

rock

east

bananas

years

fifty

armpits

(Shona) -zvimba

twin

pipes

bows

five hundred

seeds

mosquito

farms

worms

backs

(Shona) mvura

noun fire

lions

broom

verb stone

noun man (adult male human)

baby

noun moon

fruit

noun claw

I did not give you the money

warthog

jackal

better

(fire)wood

eagle

language

near

here

friend

hunt

(Shona) tambo

how

hyena

noun hair (on head of humans)

children

hive