Nambya English

I did not give you the money

sisters

elder brothers

singers

boys

beautiful

grass

verb kill

beards

(Shona) rwizi

gather

(Shona) mudzimai

noun smoke (of fire)

spider

ankle

(Shona) -tamba

nest

yes

verb sit

cave

twin

duck

play

(Shona) tsoka

sky

red ants

lake

feet

(Shona) husiku

grave

sharpening tool

guinea fowl

armpits

(Shona) -zvimba

noun seed

impalas

noun dog

virgin

eland

vein

louse, head

gold

pig

branches

well

wells

hats

stars

week

pronoun 2.sg You

if

fingernail

(Shona) gore

drunk, be

(Shona) china

in

hungry, be

(Shona) uswa

huge

push

(Shona) mutsipa

pronoun that

scared

noun cloud (not fog)

smooth

forearm

(Shona) -chembera, -tsaru

hard

death

(Shona) aisi

Dialect: English loanword

language

verb gardens

ill, become

(Shona) ganda

twins

hands

(Shona) -ipa

years

coughs

(Shona) sino

Dialect: English loanword

thirty

cockroaches

ghosts

verb, transitive embers

name (family)

tails

names (family)

awake

I see you

silent

wet, become

(Shona) -verenga, -rava

near

finish

(Shona) -dete, -nhete, -sunhu

which

verb fly

noun red (colour)

noun black (colour)

father-in-law

young

white ant (termite)

farmer

noun root (botanics)

Speaker: Bengani Ncube

wife

girl

noun foot (not leg)

break

(Shona) imi

find

(Shona) -pfupi

puddle

there

yesterday

yesterday you saw me

float

(Shona) -onda

chests

(Shona) fuva

Dialect: Manyika loanwoard

little

hearths, cooking pits/fires