Nambya English

maternal grandmother

I don’t see you

I don’t know

enemy

elder sisters

count

(Shona) zhinji

grooms

hunters

wide

cooked

grass

return

(Shona) -nwa

elbow

(Shona) -pisa

slow

hut

sneeze

(Shona) -rara

verb dead

hole

noun egg

adjective round

valley

scratch

(Shona) -rutsa

armpits

(Shona) -zvimba

worms

flower

noun horn (of bull etc.)

impalas

noun louse

gold

drum

crocodiles

branches

warthogs

noun bull

tusk

kudus

ghost

backbone

(Shona) mwedzi

lions

ground

noun rain

pronoun 2.sg You

he

noun eye

elephants

noun sun

drunk, be

(Shona) china

far

watch

(Shona) -sona

adjective big

run

(Shona) -ruma

cry

(Shona) amwe

help

(Shona) muchero

language

fear

(Shona) -kora

boats

stones

monkeys

cocks

forty

dreams

maternal aunts

mothers-in-law

wings

cockroaches

bucks

watefalls

maternal uncles

salivate

(Shona) -sveta

weeks

nets

frogs

backs

(Shona) mvura

(fire)wood

other

month

months

I gave you the money

bat

better

Excuse Me

sniff

(Shona) -rarama

finish

(Shona) -dete, -nhete, -sunhu

noun hot (of weather)

noun burn

five

father

bow

bride

sister

ladder

break

(Shona) imi

hunt

(Shona) tambo

nineteen

adjective full

Yesterday I didn’t see you

Yesterday I saw you

close

(Shona) rini

born, be

(Shona) ti

how much