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dig

(Shona) motsi

question who?

yesterday you did not see me

give birth

(Shona) murume

stab

(Shona) -cheka, -kuma

butterfly

brown

rock

ghost

which

dream

sharpening tool

thousand

warthog

ankles

(Shona) -papama

try

(Shona) -pota

go

(Shona) baba

fences

noun mountain (not hill)

noun cloud (not fog)

powerful

skulls

noun neck (not nape)

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

throat

need

(Shona) nzeve

frog

stick

insect

huge

far

where

chiefs

hips

(Shona) -gomara

jackals

vaginas

valleys

eighty

sixty

horns

money

legs

(Shona) -pedo

nests

mice

paternal grandmother

axe

backs

(Shona) mvura

elder sister

noun air

noun root (botanics)

river

elder brother

brother-in-law

son-in-law

friend

noun boy

noun head (anatomic)

noun water

some

cow

hearts

(Shona) -asviba

stories

I gave you the money

Please

noun blood

village

rib

buffalo

buffaloes

bees

elephant

dry

hot, be

(Shona) ruva

set on fire

(Shona) -ona

heavy

sharpen

(Shona) -ziva

axes

noun leaf (botanics)

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

birds

tie

(Shona) -gara

rope

verb kill

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

poor, be

(Shona) gumbo

men

women

week

yesterday you saw me

urine

hundred

chicken egg

adjective name

verb know (facts)

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

how much

correct

boats

fingers

(Shona) -tonhora

little fingers

(Shona) ku, kuna, pa, pana

swell

(Shona) -kwenya, -kwara

how many

dreams

waists