Ndau English

cook

(Shona) kwete

arrive

enter

(Shona) -hombe

paternal grandfathers

I don’t see you

knife

cooked

noun hair (on head of humans)

fist

(Shona) -zara

hat

noun liver

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

ant hill

sharpening tools

thousand

answer

noun ash(es)

noun eye

ankle

(Shona) -tamba

break

(Shona) va

grind

(Shona) hove

fourteen

bark

strong

adverb not

guinea fowls

sniff

(Shona) -rarama

chicken

throats

adjective big

bury

(Shona) pano

dogs

louse, head

fry

(Shona) mwana

banana

where

baskets

giraffes

buttocks

(Shona) jecha

worms

twenty

eighty

chief

noun bark (of tree)

cockroaches

vomit

pains

ants

thieves

bucks

house

hut

white ants (termites)

languages

elder sister

noun man (adult male human)

noun bull

lizard

female

noun fire

(Shona) moto

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

noun boy

magic

thigh

baby

another

snore

(Shona) -fa

and

prepare

(Shona) ruoko

story

beards

(Shona) rwizi

I know

fishnets

noun blood

mosquito

buffalo

buffaloes

noun star

snake

bee

freeze

(Shona) murume

scratch

(Shona) -rutsa

numeral two

rub

(Shona) kudya, -dya

death

(Shona) aisi

Dialect: English loanword

vomit

(Shona) -kwiza

wash hands

(Shona) -sunda, -sandidzira

pythons

all

leave

(Shona) nyanga

dark

sell

(Shona) -furidza

feet

(Shona) husiku

verb kill

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

bows

poor, be

(Shona) gumbo

sons-in-law

week

hunt

(Shona) tambo

urine

every

fists

(Shona) -itsva