Chikunda English

verb hear

return

(Shona) -nwa

adjective full

verb know (facts)

verb die

breathe

(Shona) ino

verb sleep

push

(Shona) mutsipa

verb sit

prepare

(Shona) ruoko

verb fly

hit

(Shona) mudzi

verb drink

few

smell

(Shona) -tya

catch

(Shona) ani

cook

(Shona) kwete

vomit

(Shona) -kwiza

long

run

(Shona) -ruma

begin

(Shona) ndi, ini

try

(Shona) -pota

do

(Shona) piri

butterfly

cocks

bats

brides

mother

elder brothers

maternal grandmothers

fathers-in-law

boat

coughs

(Shona) sino

Dialect: English loanword

second

first

noun egg

owl

adjective name

yesterday you saw me

noun sun

he

bat

stick

thousand

fourteen

thick

lie (in ambush)

(Shona) nhenga

hidden

press

(Shona) dumbu

salivate

(Shona) -sveta

copulate (have sex with)

(Shona) ese

frightened

swell

(Shona) -kwenya, -kwara

deep

poor, be

(Shona) gumbo

free

blue

in morning

noun grease (fat, organic substance)

twenty

wings

twins

money

ladder

ponds

summer

noun bird

Speaker: Robert Chimbiti

noun bird

noun dog

noun belly (lower part of body, abdomen)

farms

caves

noun person (individual human)

three

verb stone

widow

younger sister

elands

fly

orphan

(fire)wood

eagle

snore

(Shona) -fa

noun cloud (not fog)

python

day

verb kind

eyelashes

(Shona) -chena

ocean, sea

kudu

then

nine

flat

Thank You

escape

(Shona) -reba

pond

You did not see me

You see me

yes

blind