Ndau English

I don’t see you

I don’t know

paternal aunt

yesterday you did not see me

paternal grandfather

brown

ghost

give greetings

(Shona) amai

summer

noun liver

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

noun smoke (of fire)

sharpening tools

want

(Shona) -geza

if

help

(Shona) muchero

warthog

young

smell

(Shona) -tya

grind

(Shona) hove

wash hair

(Shona) -zvuva, -dhonza

noun green (colour)

eagle

vagina

noun cloud (not fog)

cock

eleven

thumb

noun fish

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

lie (in ambush)

(Shona) nhenga

ripe

adjective new

Excuse Me

old

scared

maternal aunts

paternal grandmothers

mother

combs

mountains

thirty

money

roofs

chests

(Shona) fuva

Dialect: Manyika loanwoard

thieves

mice

bucks

pregnant

axe

noun air

fruit

river

noun man (adult male human)

(Shona) murume

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

grandchild

poor

hippopotamus

baby

snore

(Shona) -fa

stories

stomach

Please

blunt (knife)

songs

noun feather (large, not down)

Speaker: Lovemore Mutonga

kudu

quiet, be

(Shona) musana

buffaloes

elephant

watch

(Shona) -sona

verb give

turn

(Shona) -wa, -donha

return

(Shona) -nwa

lungs

(Shona) na-, ne-

numeral one

begin

(Shona) ndi, ini

rub

(Shona) kudya, -dya

nurse

(Shona) ziso

death

(Shona) aisi

Dialect: English loanword

flower

grass

little

leave

(Shona) nyanga

wash clothes

(Shona) -pukuta

sister

buy

(Shona) apo

wipe

(Shona) -taura, -ti

noun red (colour)

killed, be

(Shona) ropa

singers

women

elder brothers

friends

nine

elderly

chicken egg

noun tooth (front, rather than molar)

day before yesterday

correct

every

fists

(Shona) -itsva

understand

(Shona) -pa