Nambya English

mother

elder brothers

sisters-in-law

farmers

grooms

girls

boys

hold

(Shona) gwati

boiled

boat

brain

(Shona) nyanza

noun liver

how

third

thousand

fist

(Shona) -zara

banana

mouse

play

(Shona) tsoka

lake

pond

grave

armpits

(Shona) -zvimba

fences

right

widow

widows

louse, head

verb, intransitive drums

pigs

rhinoceroses

hats

tusks

mosquitoes

hundred

noun eye

summer

elephants

frog

chicken

insect

drunk, get

(Shona) shanu

hungry, be

(Shona) uswa

rotten

far

have fever

(Shona) gonye

pronoun that

heavy

deaths

(Shona) hutsi

correct

garden

sick

twins

hives

fifty

sixty

sharpening tools

Tomorrow I will see you

chiefs

breasts

(Shona) ibwe

bows

thorns

tails

heads

(Shona) -ora (rot)

ladders

daughter

month

kiss

(Shona) bvupa

hearts

(Shona) -asviba

go

(Shona) baba

I gave you the money

I will give you the money

I see you

lie (tell untruth)

(Shona) vhudzi

wet

pronoun all (of a number)

hot, be

(Shona) ruva

verb fly

burned

five

paternal uncle

noun black (colour)

father-in-law

chickens

sister-in-law

farmer

nurse

(Shona) ziso

noun woman

dawn

noun root (botanics)

Speaker: Bengani Ncube

elder sister

ladder

priest

lice, head

twelve

adjective full

yesterday

yesterday you saw me

open

(Shona) muromo, mukanwa

know each other

(Shona) mafuta