Nambya English

maternal grandmother

I don’t know

farmers

have breakfast

(Shona) nyana

verb kind

set on fire

(Shona) -ona

girls

kick

(Shona) nyama

You’re Welcome

beautiful

ask

brain

(Shona) nyanza

brains

(Shona) munyu

dead bodies

crow

slow

hide

(Shona) shizha

noun knee

hail

verb swim

sew

(Shona) -nzwa

they

hive

pond

ocean, sea

jackal

flower

virgins

adjective cold (of weather)

pig

houses

crocodile

rhinoceros

rhinoceroses

flies

turtles

bulls

buffaloes

birds

verb, transitive farm

lions

fishnet

noun sun

songs

some

drunk, get

(Shona) shanu

hungry, be

(Shona) uswa

watch

(Shona) -sona

have fever

(Shona) gonye

give greetings

(Shona) amai

run

(Shona) -ruma

arm

(Shona) -erera

language

fear

(Shona) -kora

verb stand

twins

mothers-in-law

hawks

wings

bucks

farms

maternal uncles

baboons

maternal grandfathers

seven hundred

trails

trees

salt

daughter

month

noun tail

noun heart

Please

I gave you the money

burn

(Shona) iyo

verb fly

noun red (colour)

answer

poor, be

(Shona) gumbo

dirty

paternal uncle

cut

(Shona) shoma

wind

broom

You see me

groom

noun person (individual human)

noun man (adult male human)

elder brother

waist

poor

urine

names

here

adjective full

day before yesterday

every

elbows

(Shona) rhodhi

nests

hearths, cooking pits/fires