Nambya English

I did not give you the money

I don’t see you

You did not see me

live

(Shona) mvere

daughters-in-law

friends

sons-in-law

brides

daughters

have cold

(Shona) inda

catch

(Shona) ani

both

grass

beards

(Shona) rwizi

gather

(Shona) mudzimai

east

noun green (colour)

brain

(Shona) nyanza

chin

(Shona) mhute

left

hearth, cooking pit/fire

weak

sit down

(Shona) -nhuwidza

rat

blind

true (not false)

rock

red ants

year

butterfly

crab

tortoises

worms

rainbow

noun horn (of bull etc.)

rhinoceros

wells

axe

baboon

ripe

word

noun eye

elephant

adjective dry (substance)

pregnant

far

watch

(Shona) -sona

huge

give greetings

(Shona) amai

grind

(Shona) hove

heavy

hit

(Shona) mudzi

sharpen

(Shona) -ziva

stories

forearms

(Shona) -naka

years

graves

twenty

forty

fifty

dreams

paternal grandmothers

eagles

wings

shells

verb, transitive embers

fathers

paternal aunts

weeks

names (family)

verb drink

kiss

(Shona) bvupa

smell

(Shona) -tya

adjective small

silent

hot, be

(Shona) ruva

be blind

cloudy

dark

chickens

young

insects

enemies

noun boy

noun neck (not nape)

elder sister

singer

waist

names

younger brother

broken, be

lice, head

puddle

here

Yesterday I didn’t see you

day before yesterday

sweet

knives

how much

nests