Ndau English

cut

(Shona) shoma

choose

(Shona) kupi

high

suck

(Shona) -baya, -junga

I don’t see you

receive

(Shona) chifuva

verb sleep

cave

born, be

(Shona) ti

blue

talk

(Shona) -shambira

noun hand

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

young bird

hit

(Shona) mudzi

fist

(Shona) -zara

rhinoceros

bat

happy

baboon

skull

drunk, get

(Shona) shanu

ankles

(Shona) -papama

flow

(Shona) mukadzi

fences

eagle

thumb

pigs

bark (dog)

arrow

dogs

kidney(s)

(Shona) -tsiura, -ruramisa

old

frightened

mud

buttocks

(Shona) jecha

combs

crabs

vaginas

eighty

sixty

in morning

twins

money

verb words

noun earth (soil)

seven hundred

teeth

seeds

hut

huts

axe

enemy

bald

impala

brother-in-law

friend

younger sister

salt

noun boy

old person

language

thigh

baby

noun moon

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

noun heart

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

make

(Shona) musoro

prepare

(Shona) ruoko

prepared, be

(Shona) bapiro

story

beard

(Shona) kunaya

song

brains

(Shona) munyu

village

flies

noun horn (of bull etc.)

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

quiet, be

(Shona) musana

hungry, be

(Shona) uswa

dry

watch

(Shona) -sona

at

hot, be

(Shona) ruva

blind

noun tongue (anatomical)

(Shona) rurimi

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

how

duck

little

ant

wash clothes

(Shona) -pukuta

frighten

(Shona) munhu

urinate (piss)

(Shona) -dvinya

killed, be

(Shona) ropa

bow

verb come

seven

open

(Shona) muromo, mukanwa

phrase he made only a partial marriage payment

(Shona) akabhadhara kusvika padanga chete

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

adjective name

every

bats

verb hear

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole