Ndau English

cry

(Shona) amwe

dig

(Shona) motsi

question who?

I will not give you the money

I did not give you the money

You did not see me

put

(Shona) huro

butterfly

blue

name

noun hair (on head of humans)

hit

(Shona) mudzi

fist

(Shona) -zara

finger

(Shona) zuva

rhinoceros

dream

sharpening tools

answer

skull

noun black (colour)

roof

sky

noun knee

young

deep

adjective full

go

(Shona) baba

rich

wash hair

(Shona) -zvuva, -dhonza

eagle

vagina

worm

twelve

fish(es)

arrow

pronoun this

fast

bridges

east

sisters

paternal aunts

eighty

horns

flowers

chicken eggs

seeds

ostrich

raw

deaf

houses

spears

trees

tears

enemies

in

elder brother

female

child

cow

with

adjective good

beard

(Shona) kunaya

I know

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

ribs

mosquito

fly

bees

verb pipe

wing

lung

(Shona) ne

sharp (knife)

blind

tongues

noun leaf (botanics)

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

pythons

all

laugh

(Shona) zai

monkey

wash clothes

(Shona) -pukuta

play

(Shona) tsoka

wool

take

(Shona) -chera, -tukumbam

noun foot (not leg)

killed, be

(Shona) ropa

poor, be

(Shona) gumbo

brothers

friends

boys

chicken egg

name (family)

sweat

yesterday

verb, intransitive drums

boats

now

chins

(Shona) denga

bats

better

verb hear

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole