Nambya English

I don’t know

adverb not

brothers

children

have

(Shona) shiri

girls

hunters

thick

cooked

raw

bark

return

(Shona) -nwa

knife

spider

ankle

(Shona) -tamba

elbow

(Shona) -pisa

hut

thousand

noun knee

nest

hearth, cooking pit/fire

nine

noun bark (of tree)

cheek

(Shona) huruva

valley

eyelash

(Shona) -yero

virgin

animals

leopard

cheetah

rhinoceros

vagina

hats

giraffe

buffalo

ghost

noun rain

wool

elephant

frog

some

fry

(Shona) mwana

fat

drunk, get

(Shona) shanu

then

in

far

watch

(Shona) -sona

pass the night

(Shona) zino

verb say

heavy

noun tongue (anatomical)

river

horns

ponds

valleys

coughs

(Shona) sino

Dialect: English loanword

fifty

maternal aunts

Tomorrow I will not see you

day after tomorrow

snore

(Shona) -fa

claws

bucks

paternal uncles

fishnets

trails

fingers

(Shona) -tonhora

another

numeral one

hearts

(Shona) -asviba

I know

many

adjective many

tired

verb die

finish

(Shona) -dete, -nhete, -sunhu

hot, be

(Shona) ruva

press

(Shona) dumbu

do

(Shona) piri

Thank You

maternal grandfather

father-in-law

possible

send

(Shona) -fema

broom

nurse

(Shona) ziso

noun man (adult male human)

noun root (botanics)

Speaker: Bengani Ncube

brother

ladder

break

(Shona) va

pronoun this

Yesterday I saw you

know each other

(Shona) mafuta

ant hills

impossible

spiders

eyebrows

(Shona) -girini

Dialect: English loanword

huts