Nambya English

I did not give you the money

question who?

sons-in-law

singers

prepared, be

(Shona) bapiro

daughters

bats

have breakfast

(Shona) nyana

people

wide

cooked

rub

(Shona) kudya, -dya

verb kill

west

lie (in ambush)

(Shona) nhenga

noun green (colour)

brains

(Shona) munyu

knife

crow

have hiccups

(Shona) muti

yes

mice

buck

chicken egg

cheek

(Shona) huruva

spear

magic

year

grave

crab

guinea fowls

eyelash

(Shona) -yero

rope

leopards

vagina

flies

noun star

mosquito

noun ear

pronoun inclusive we

noun water

noun sun

chicken

fast

brown

fat

verb fat

watch

(Shona) -sona

push

(Shona) mutsipa

speak

(Shona) -uraya

cry

(Shona) amwe

deaths

(Shona) hutsi

fight

(Shona) -diki

chicken eggs

monkeys

noun grease (fat, organic substance)

coughs

(Shona) sino

Dialect: English loanword

fifty

ninety

eighty

owls

verb tomorrow

baboons

roofs

mountains

verb words

seven hundred

waists

ladders

leave

(Shona) nyanga

now

many

verb give

flat

hot, be

(Shona) ruva

blunt (knife)

remain

(Shona) chitaka

answer

seven

cloudy

press

(Shona) dumbu

noun black (colour)

sell

(Shona) -furidza

bow

wind

sister-in-law

You see me

noun man (adult male human)

dawn

daughter-in-law

sister

brother

younger brother

bury

(Shona) pano

fall

(Shona) -fara

fifteen

nineteen

shamans

Yesterday I saw you

verb know (facts)