Ndau English

count

(Shona) zhinji

knife

mucus

(Shona) nekuti

blue

hole

noun hair (on head of humans)

save

(Shona) -pfira

drum

question what?

which

heel

(Shona) -twasanuka

near

young

try

(Shona) -pota

go

(Shona) baba

verb die

break

(Shona) va

rich

verb sit

jackal

noun bone

true (not false)

throat

ripe

bury

(Shona) pano

do

(Shona) piri

he

throw

(Shona) -zorora

kiss

(Shona) bvupa

frightened

burned

sisters-in-law

paternal aunts

buttocks

(Shona) jecha

leopards

eagles

worms

rats

ninety

horns

noun bark (of tree)

stones

pain

verb words

ants

excrement

(Shona) gomo

thief

mouse

huts

nets

farms

lips

(Shona) -rudyi

enemy

impalas

fruit

coughs

(Shona) sino

Dialect: English loanword

semen

arrows

old person

language

noun water

hippopotamus

another

I gave you the money

noun belly (lower part of body, abdomen)

pronoun 1.sg I

toenail

why

song

brains

(Shona) munyu

verb intr. path (road, trail; not street)

flies

here

turn

(Shona) -wa, -donha

find

(Shona) -pfupi

separated, be

(Shona) -seka

spit

(Shona) -rwa

sharp (knife)

straight

weak

deaths

(Shona) hutsi

noun tongue (anatomical)

(Shona) rurimi

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sick

axes

maternal uncles

monkey

sew

(Shona) -nzwa

push

(Shona) mutsipa

dark

urinate (piss)

(Shona) -dvinya

You see me

priests

men

people

four

seven

You’re Welcome

rhinoceroses

wash self

(Shona) -kanda

ant hills