Nambya English

and

I did not give you the money

elder brothers

friends

brothers-in-law

husbands

sons

younger sisters

grandchildren

wide

hold

(Shona) gwati

honey

verb kill

killed, be

(Shona) ropa

ant

gather

(Shona) mudzimai

noun smoke (of fire)

lie (in ambush)

(Shona) nhenga

brains

(Shona) munyu

have diarrhea

(Shona) nyoka

mouse

hole

noun bark (of tree)

play

(Shona) tsoka

valley

year

butterfly

worms

noun horn (of bull etc.)

zebra

fan

vein

gold

malaria

crocodiles

cheetah

hat

bulls

buffalo

mosquito

mosquitoes

kudu

ground

bridge

word

elephants

insect

grind

(Shona) hove

have itch

(Shona) sango

finger

(Shona) zuva

branch

fear

(Shona) -kora

verb eat

bananas

mice

hands

(Shona) -ipa

monkeys

butterflies

twenty

owls

maternal aunts

Tomorrow I will not see you

Tomorrow I will see you

maternal uncles

mountains

weeks

seven hundred

noun yellow (colour)

thorns

fingers

(Shona) -tonhora

noun heart

four

go

(Shona) baba

how many

many

adjective many

because

lizard

flat

finish

(Shona) -dete, -nhete, -sunhu

where

poor, be

(Shona) gumbo

arrive

make

(Shona) musoro

paternal uncle

paternal aunt

baby

noun mouth

noun person (individual human)

sister

village

back

(Shona) jenaguru

waist

noun foot (not leg)

thorn

fifteen

verb come

elbows

(Shona) rhodhi

how much

adjective long (not ’wide’)