Chikunda English

verb hear

return

(Shona) -nwa

cut

(Shona) shoma

feed

(Shona) -rema

arrive

close

(Shona) rini

buy

(Shona) apo

sit down

(Shona) -nhuwidza

think

(Shona) -famba

tie

(Shona) -gara

give greetings

(Shona) amai

verb drink

another

some

tear

(Shona) -mbururuka

quiet, be

(Shona) musana

spit

(Shona) -rwa

vomit

(Shona) -kwiza

answer

break

(Shona) imi

widows

tortoises

maternal uncle

hunters

spiders

paternal grandmothers

elder sisters

younger sisters

bark

butterflies

cockroach

pronoun all (of a number)

impossible

cough

(Shona) mhepo

knife

frog

blow

(Shona) a

have breakfast

(Shona) nyana

you (pl)

verb (imperative) kill

Speaker: Robert Chimbiti

he

bat

prepared, be

(Shona) bapiro

have diarrhea

(Shona) nyoka

press

(Shona) dumbu

bleed

(Shona) iwe

ill, become

(Shona) ganda

need

(Shona) nzeve

scared

rich

straight

defecate (shit)

(Shona) imwe

sister-in-law

killed, be

(Shona) ropa

poor, be

(Shona) gumbo

freeze

(Shona) murume

flow

(Shona) mukadzi

right

verb today

cry

(Shona) amwe

fence

bones

(Shona) gungwa

noun grease (fat, organic substance)

sixty

dreams

pipes

weeks

mud

seven hundred

dogs

arrows

impala

priest

baby

fruit

high

branch

younger sister

flies

beard

(Shona) kunaya

Tomorrow I will not see you

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

chicken

eagles

bag

noun louse

eyelash

(Shona) -yero

basket

leopard

elephant

pond

hyena

now

noun hair (on head of humans)

net

at night

rainbow

powerful

babies

have children

(Shona) imbwa