Ndau English

cook

(Shona) kwete

arrive

close

(Shona) rini

adjective many

I will not give you the money

I don’t know

verb sleep

yesterday you did not see me

verb stone

question what?

finger

(Shona) zuva

which

want

(Shona) -geza

happy

roof

drunk, be

(Shona) china

noun ash(es)

adjective full

noun eye

try

(Shona) -pota

wide

noun green (colour)

backbones

(Shona) nyeredzi

valley

broken, be

pig

pronoun that

hidden, be

(Shona) mhodzi, mbeu

fight

(Shona) -diki

bridges

names

zebras

giraffes

shoulders

leopards

worms

thirty

ladders

twin

heads

(Shona) -ora (rot)

pipes

stones

money

ducks

verb words

penises

house

huts

bulls

pregnant

bald

impala

impalas

lightning

verb fly

(Shona) bhururuka

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

coughs

(Shona) sino

Dialect: English loanword

verb, transitive farm

smell

younger brother

arrows

old (person)

hunter

cow

make

(Shona) musoro

I see you

toenail

kudus

verb drink

buffalo

stars

watch

(Shona) -sona

rotten

float

(Shona) -onda

find

(Shona) -pfupi

verb pipe

sharp

set on fire

(Shona) -ona

death

(Shona) aisi

Dialect: English loanword

tongues

noun leaf (botanics)

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

grass

itch

(Shona) -totesa

raise

(Shona) zamu

dark

sister

bowstring

feet

(Shona) husiku

noun foot (not leg)

noun red (colour)

killed, be

(Shona) ropa

rainbow

sons

babies

three

open

(Shona) muromo, mukanwa

noun tooth (front, rather than molar)

owl

ghosts

boats

cages