Chikunda English

verb come

bury

(Shona) pano

fall

(Shona) -fara

fast

verb say

verb drink

few

quiet, be

(Shona) musana

noun hot (of weather)

hot, be

(Shona) ruva

long

obey

(Shona) mhuno

run

(Shona) -ruma

put

(Shona) huro

sing

(Shona) -funga

be blind

farmers

paternal uncle

maternal uncle

daughters-in-law

younger brothers

elder sisters

younger sisters

maternal uncles

undress

(Shona) -bata, -pfunda

nests

true (not false)

which

yesterday

bat

chin

(Shona) mhute

tortoise

stick

noun ear

prepared, be

(Shona) bapiro

have diarrhea

(Shona) nyoka

bleed

(Shona) iwe

sky

verb dead

scared

recognize

(Shona) moyo

strong

lie (tell untruth)

(Shona) vhudzi

have itch

(Shona) sango

killed, be

(Shona) ropa

cooked

rub

(Shona) kudya, -dya

wash someone

(Shona) -sunga

sweet

verb clean

rotten

dried

freeze

(Shona) murume

suck

(Shona) -baya, -junga

have hiccups

(Shona) muti

rock

boats

thirty

grave

graves

left

wings

money

ladder

hyenas

mud

five hundred

noun dog

(Shona) imbwa

Speaker: Robert Chimbiti

bellies

(Shona) dziva

noun belly (lower part of body, abdomen)

branches

spear

You’re Welcome

Yesterday I saw you

dark

younger sister

eland

elands

cows

Tomorrow I will not see you

I see you

noun woman

noun heart

(Shona) moyo

Speaker: Robert Chimbiti

pythons

days

verb kind

eyebrows

(Shona) -girini

Dialect: English loanword

snakes

near

if

wing

noun mountain (not hill)

break

(Shona) va

enter

(Shona) -hombe

friends

five

bowstring

now

grass

noun night