Shona English

dig

black (colour)

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

fall

return

walk

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

happy

feed

hide

bad

wet, become

see

finish

push

watch

speak

buy

frighten

open

lung

vagina

banana

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

sweet

verb rhinoceros

frog

noun lizard

name

crocodile

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun jackal

eagle

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun puddle

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

phrase I have never read that book

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

armpit

noun louse

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun sand

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun sand (opposite to following)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) catch, hold

verb (infinitive) help

verb (infinitive) bleed

verb (infinitive) undress

verb (infinitive) die

verb (infinitive) sniff

verb (infinitive) wash clothes

verb (infinitive) wash someone

verb (infinitive) comb

verb (infinitive) give greetings

verb (infinitive) become hard or dry (substance)

verb (infinitive) freeze

verb (infinitive) enter

verb (infinitive) nurse

far

verb (infinitive) push

verb (infinitive) tie

verb (infinitive) squeeze

verb (infinitive) hidden, be

verb (infinitive) to lie down to sleep

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

verb (infinitive) give birth

verb (infinitive) born, be

ducks

ponds

crocodiles

puddles

net

phrase Tomorrow is today

Speaker: Reggemore Marongedze

cockroaches

phrase How have you spent your day?

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

days

buck

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun woman

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

milk

thorn

noun head (anatomic)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun head (anatomic)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

language

grandchild

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

month

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

adjective bride

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

Please

noun gold

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun pig, pigs

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun feather (large, not down)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

orphan

noun flesh (meat)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun star

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun claw, claws

proverb (tsumo) There is a special reason behind the death of an owl

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

verb (imperative) burn, be hot

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

noun blood

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

death

noun python, pythons

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun leaf (botanics)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun monkey, monkeys

little

verb (imperative) say

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

proverb (tsumo) Signs are not the same as results

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

eyelash

many

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

summer (rainy season)

noun sun, day

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

thumbs

waists