Shona English

hide

sing

bad

see

fight

buy

take

count

vagina

banana

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

bag

bridge

adjective white (colour)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

fist

ghost

stick

waist

axe

sky, heaven, roof

adjective small

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

butterfly

noun jackal

noun mountain (not hill)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun cloud (not fog), year

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun crow

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

word

noun sand (opposite to following)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

phrase long ago

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb (infinitive) catch, hold

verb (infinitive) help

verb (infinitive) undress

verb (infinitive) want, need

verb (infinitive) pass the night

verb (infinitive) fall

verb (infinitive) eat

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) die

verb (infinitive) wash hair

verb (infinitive) wash someone

verb (infinitive) throw

verb (infinitive) rub

rain

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

verb (infinitive) quiet, be

verb (infinitive) hear

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) become hard or dry (substance)

verb (infinitive) see

verb (infinitive) finish

where

verb (infinitive) sharpen

verb (infinitive) bite

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb (infinitive) choose

verb (infinitive) watch

verb (infinitive) kiss

verb (infinitive) killed, be

verb (infinitive) hidden, be

verb (infinitive) count

verb (infinitive) know each other

not

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun grease (fat, organic substance)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun jackals

noun (good) evening

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

diarrhea

vaginas

chicken eggs

seeds

raw

noun seed

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

thorns

valleys

elderly

younger sister

noun man (adult male human)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

language

neck (not nape)

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

noun neck (not nape)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

proverb (tsumo) The son of a king loses his honour in a foreign land (literally becomes just a servant elsewhere)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun gold

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

yesterday

noun feather (large, not down)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun feather (large, not down)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

orphan

noun horn (of bull etc.)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun star

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun claw, claws

pipe

death

noun tongue (anatomical)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun tongue (anatomical)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun river, rivers

salt

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

three

vein, veins

red (colour)

noun insects

phrase what is your name? (informal)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

phrase what are you doing? (informal)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun hair (on head of humans)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

many

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

proverb (tsumo) The tooth is a fool, it smiles even at one’s enemy. (Appearances can be deceiving.)

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

ankle

phrase everything is fine

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa