Ndau English

cry

(Shona) amwe

fall

(Shona) -fara

defecate (shit)

(Shona) imwe

close

(Shona) rini

You did not see me

bridge

cooked

noun hair (on head of humans)

day after tomorrow

give greetings

(Shona) amai

cage

ant hill

noun smoke (of fire)

near

ankles

(Shona) -papama

verb lie (on side, recline)

verb die

noun skin (person’s)

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

grind

(Shona) hove

noun green (colour)

noun bone

rat

pigs

fish(es)

chickens

noun neck (not nape)

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

throat

bury

(Shona) pano

pronoun 2.sg You

testicle

fear

(Shona) -kora

scared

east

mothers

sisters

forty

crows

ladders

horns

ants

cheeks

(Shona) ivhu, pasi

mice

bucks

ostrich

house

farms

axe

bald

priest

awake

noun bull

son

noun tree (not log)

(Shona) muti

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

smell

salt

husband

child

daughter

another

and

Yesterday I saw you

bellies

(Shona) dziva

noun belly (lower part of body, abdomen)

blunt (knife)

claws

quiet, be

(Shona) musana

buffaloes

bee

hungry, be

(Shona) uswa

elephant

scratch

(Shona) -rutsa

squeeze

(Shona) -rova, -bhura

spit

(Shona) -rwa

lung

(Shona) ne

sharp (knife)

heat

(Shona) rutanda

adjective long (not ’wide’)

vomit

(Shona) -kwiza

sick

forest

grass

word

adjective cold (of weather)

gather

(Shona) mudzimai

bow

verb come

singers

men

wives

elder sisters

sons-in-law

husbands

eight

five

six

hunt

(Shona) tambo

verb clean

noun sun

many

fists

(Shona) -itsva