Shona English

hold

black (colour)

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

fall

feed

alone

throw

understand

push

sell

turn

come

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

phrase he broke his leg playing ball

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

grandmother (paternal or maternal), mother-in-law

pronoun who?

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun hole

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

sweet

noun skin (person’s)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun jackal

green (colour)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun brother or sister (of the opposite sex)

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

pronoun this

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

pronoun 1.sg I

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun earth (soil)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun sand

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun full moon

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) undress

verb (infinitive) drunk, get

verb (infinitive) feed

verb (infinitive) go

verb (infinitive) put

verb (infinitive) rub

become tired

verb (infinitive) smell

verb (infinitive) see

verb (infinitive) give

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) finish

verb (infinitive) throw away

verb (infinitive) bite

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb (infinitive) choose

verb (infinitive) talk, speak, say

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) escape

verb (infinitive) take

verb (infinitive) send

verb (infinitive) thirsty, be

verb (infinitive) to lie down to sleep

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

verb (infinitive) open

verb (infinitive) bury

verb (infinitive) lie (on side, recline)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

not

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

east

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

puddles

net

lungs

vaginas

flowers

ants

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

deaf

thief

elands

priest

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

female

younger sister

noun head (anatomic)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun neck (not nape)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun daughter

Speaker: Reggemore Marongedze

adjective bride

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

phrase I love my country

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

yesterday

drum

seven

noun horn (of bull etc.)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun horn (of bull etc.)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun sea, lake; seas, lakes

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

buffalo, buffaloes

noun star

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun elephant, elephants

here

proverb (tsumo) Experience is the best teacher

left

arm

noun hand

noun tongue (anatomical)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

proverb (tsumo) It’s when you are about to give up that you get a breakthrough

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

salt

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

how

maternal grandfather

eight

noun bird

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun monkey, monkeys

father-in-law

red (colour)

noun hair (on head of humans)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

urine

adjective yellow (colour)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

hundred

phrase everything is fine

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa