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dig

(Shona) motsi

adjective many

mothers-in-law

I will not give you the money

I don’t know

paternal aunt

paternal uncle

boiled

blue

left

boat

give greetings

(Shona) amai

bat

heel

(Shona) -twasanuka

waist

noun smoke (of fire)

sharpening tool

skull

adjective round

drunk, get

(Shona) shanu

giraffe

noun green (colour)

ten

strong

true (not false)

guinea fowl

pronoun that

need

(Shona) nzeve

they

verb (infinitive) see

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

bridges

mud

fathers

maternal grandfathers

graves

jackals

leopards

vaginas

fifty

ladder

ladders

verb tomorrow

horns

hyenas

baboons

chests

(Shona) fuva

Dialect: Manyika loanwoard

intestines

(Shona) -tsetseka

noun earth (soil)

teeth

owls

days

thief

ostrich

animal

maternal grandmother

white ants (termites)

spears

farms

noses

(Shona) dzinza

enemies

noun root (botanics)

noun man (adult male human)

son-in-law

friend

noun water

another

adjective good

claws

fingernail

(Shona) gore

snakes

dried

rotten

turn

(Shona) -wa, -donha

sharp

sharp (knife)

numeral two

set on fire

(Shona) -ona

when

verb bite

duck

yawn

(Shona) -imba

word

lions

wash clothes

(Shona) -pukuta

push

(Shona) mutsipa

buy

(Shona) apo

sell

(Shona) -furidza

feet

(Shona) husiku

urinate (piss)

(Shona) -dvinya

verb kill

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

sons-in-law

younger brothers

chicken egg

name (family)

owl

day before yesterday

many

verb, intransitive drums

cages

wash self

(Shona) -kanda