Ndau English

cook

(Shona) kwete

defecate (shit)

(Shona) imwe

close

(Shona) rini

I did not give you the money

I don’t know

bridge

left

bleed

(Shona) iwe

hit

(Shona) mudzi

boat

noun liver

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

want

(Shona) -geza

cheek

(Shona) huruva

drunk, be

(Shona) china

chest

(Shona) gore

noun ash(es)

deep

noun hot (of weather)

fences

blow

(Shona) a

hip

(Shona) -pinza

crab

ten

powerful

verb walk

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

verb swim

(Shona) sambira

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

pig

hidden

noun dog

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

louse, head

pronoun inclusive we

they

Excuse Me

insect

hard

old

fathers

maternal grandmothers

sisters

graves

leopards

forty

ladder

hyenas

pains

ants

baboons

chests

(Shona) fuva

Dialect: Manyika loanwoard

five hundred

mice

animals

white ants (termites)

trees

noun nose

brooms

lightning

verb fly

(Shona) bhururuka

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

noun root (botanics)

priest

noun man (adult male human)

noun man (adult male human)

(Shona) murume

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

cough

(Shona) mhepo

grandchild

brother-in-law

magic

noun head (anatomic)

hunter

noun water

groom

month

cows

prepare

(Shona) ruoko

Please

crocodiles

meat

noun horn (of bull etc.)

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

thirsty, be

(Shona) -uya

rotten

here

find

(Shona) -pfupi

return

(Shona) -nwa

wing

throw away

(Shona) -garira

when

tongues

bad

word

sweet

Goodbye

noun foot (not leg)

verb come

husbands

farmers

daughters-in-law

obey

(Shona) mhuno

correct

tortoises

verb, intransitive drums

elbows

(Shona) rhodhi

how many