Ndau English

cook

(Shona) kwete

Tomorrow I will not see you

yesterday you did not see me

knife

stop

(Shona) -dambura

mucus

(Shona) nekuti

bag

blue

bleed

(Shona) iwe

hole

ghost

toe

bat

noun smoke (of fire)

happy

drunk, be

(Shona) china

noun knee

chest

(Shona) gore

noun hot (of weather)

break

(Shona) va

live

(Shona) mvere

noun green (colour)

worm

rat

arrow

hidden

frightened

sisters-in-law

maternal aunts

maternal grandfathers

eyes

(Shona) -dema

giraffes

jackals

bananas

seventy

north

legs

(Shona) -pedo

nests

intestines

(Shona) -tsetseka

seven hundred

deaf

paternal grandmother

hut

pregnant

farms

smells

enemy

noun air

in

priest

wife

thorn

back

(Shona) jenaguru

noun head (anatomic)

daughter-in-law

noun water

daughter

noun moon

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

I gave you the money

Please

I know

girls

blunt (knife)

fingernails

(Shona) -dziya

fingernail

(Shona) gore

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

flies

lake

lakes

dry

find

(Shona) -pfupi

squeeze

(Shona) -rova, -bhura

be blind

numeral one

sick

noun bird

ant

itches

(Shona) -omesa, -oma

raise

(Shona) zamu

free

rope

at night

men

sons

nine

six

three

urine

verb clean

name (family)

day before yesterday

day

You’re Welcome

toenails

now

cages

chins

(Shona) denga

bats

dreams

verb hear

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole