Chikunda English

understand

(Shona) -pa

leave

(Shona) nyanga

adjective full

breathe

(Shona) ino

close

(Shona) rini

frighten

(Shona) munhu

fall

(Shona) -fara

comb

(Shona) sei, -ngani

noun yellow (colour)

make

(Shona) musoro

prepare

(Shona) ruoko

awake

verb drink

turn

(Shona) -wa, -donha

hot, be

(Shona) ruva

answer

noun burn

run

(Shona) -ruma

be blind

cockroaches

cocks

frogs

women

elderly

mother

wives

elder brothers

maternal grandmothers

mothers-in-law

coughs

(Shona) sino

Dialect: English loanword

nests

which

noun foot (not leg)

noun eye

noun earth (soil)

gold

stick

eleven

prepared, be

(Shona) bapiro

at

beautiful

silent

south

urinate (piss)

(Shona) -dvinya

freeze

(Shona) murume

flow

(Shona) mukadzi

when

verb words

forty

younger brother

pipes

buttocks

(Shona) jecha

chiefs

noun bird

Speaker: Robert Chimbiti

question who?

dogs

wells

bellies

(Shona) dziva

horns

worms

spears

daughter-in-law

verb, transitive farm

noun person (individual human)

noun root (botanics)

noun man (adult male human)

son

months

white ant (termite)

widow

noun claw

fly

goose

cows

adjective small

female

jackal

guinea fowls

better

language

fleas

pythons

girl

days

basket

noun star

house

houses

break

(Shona) va

five

flat

bowstring

trap

(Shona) -sumuka, -simuka, -mira

now

chins

(Shona) denga

insects

You did not see me

red ants

children

yes