Ndau English

arrive

fall

(Shona) -fara

escape

(Shona) -reba

question who?

Tomorrow I will not see you

father

paternal grandfather

arm

(Shona) -erera

elbow

(Shona) -pisa

noun liver

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

livers

(Shona) mu

thousand

noun black (colour)

roof

sky

drunk, be

(Shona) china

adjective small

press

(Shona) dumbu

verb stand

flow

(Shona) mukadzi

jackal

grind

(Shona) hove

backbones

(Shona) nyeredzi

valley

twelve

guinea fowl

pigs

need

(Shona) nzeve

adjective new

testicle

stick

verb (infinitive) rain

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

where

baskets

sisters

buttocks

(Shona) jecha

mountains

cocks

forty

eighty

chief

stones

malaria

pains

excrement

(Shona) gomo

thief

thorns

brooms

elder sister

enemies

noun man (adult male human)

noun man (adult male human)

(Shona) murume

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

awake

spear

smell

thorn

lip

(Shona) -kure

noun boy

hippopotamus

hearts

(Shona) -asviba

prepared, be

(Shona) bapiro

blunt (knife)

toenail

noun blood

village

orphan

sad

ears

(Shona) dota

elephants

float

(Shona) -onda

be blind

think

(Shona) -famba

axes

wash hands

(Shona) -sunda, -sandidzira

wash someone

(Shona) -sunga

grass

noun bird

birds

wash clothes

(Shona) -pukuta

dirty

tear

(Shona) -mbururuka

trap

(Shona) -sumuka, -simuka, -mira

wet

wet, become

(Shona) -verenga, -rava

Goodbye

insects

killed, be

(Shona) ropa

singers

priests

women

husbands

daughters-in-law

noun phrase my name is Emmanuel

(Shona) zita rangu ndiManu

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

adjective name

day

many

elbows

(Shona) rhodhi

thumbs

dreams

wells