Shona English

verb, intransitive cry

good

dry (substance)

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

finish

hot, be

laugh

sell

take

gather

come

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

knife

vagina

banana

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun knee

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

adjective white (colour)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

chest

duck

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun cheetah, cheetahs

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

true (not false)

noun lizard

buttocks

green (colour)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

baboon

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

armpit

proverb (tsumo) Relationships are made complete by fellowshipping (sharing meals)

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun dog

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

drink

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

pronoun we

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb (infinitive) stab

verb (infinitive) pay

verb (infinitive) fly

verb (infinitive) undress

verb (infinitive) want, need

verb (infinitive) pass the night

verb (infinitive) feel warmth

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) breathe

verb (infinitive) blow

verb (infinitive) make, prepare

verb (infinitive) sit down

verb (infinitive) wash someone

verb (infinitive) be good

become wet

verb (infinitive) see

verb (infinitive) sleep

verb (infinitive) stand

verb (infinitive) arrive

verb (infinitive) turn

verb (infinitive) burn

verb (infinitive) kill

verb (infinitive) poor, be

verb (infinitive) hunt

verb (infinitive) know (facts)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

ducks

ant hills

crocodiles

years

Dialect: English loanword

baboons

ladder

tomorrow

noun (good) evening

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

money

flowers

thief

seeds

noun impala, impalas

noun seed

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

elands

fire

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

fruit

milk

elderly

thorn

rainbow

noun man (adult male human)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

son

month

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

smell

noun gold

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

drum

winter

noun flesh (meat)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun horn (of bull etc.)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

bees

ground

adjective long (not ’wide’)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

left

death

arm

flower

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

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

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

noun python, pythons

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

little

dirty

eyelash

noun foot (not leg)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

intestines

phrase What are you afraid of?

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

egg

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

tooth (front, rather than molar)

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa