Shona English

hold

dig

want

alone

sing

do

fast

give greetings

throw away

hit

fight

break

count

close

proverb (tsumo) Pools have become shallow crossings.

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

vagina

brown

adjective white (colour)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

fist

proverb (tsumo) The soil knows when a baby mouse is sick. (Someone close can feel anything going on in your life).

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

chest

noun liver

nest

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

[LL] noun abandoned home

Example: outside Mt Darwin (IM)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

true (not false)

noun belly (lower part of body, abdomen), stomach

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun mountain (not hill)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun worm

noun crow

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

depression in rock

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

wind

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

armpit

adjective big

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun grass

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun stone

noun louse

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

kidney(s)

noun earth (soil)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

that

noun full moon

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

ant hill

verb (infinitive) kick

verb (infinitive) tear

verb (infinitive) try

verb (infinitive) die

verb (infinitive) sniff

verb (infinitive) make, prepare

verb (infinitive) grind

verb (infinitive) sneeze

verb (infinitive) put

verb (infinitive) smell

become wet

verb (infinitive) nurse

verb (infinitive) hit

verb (infinitive) bite

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb (infinitive) swim

verb (infinitive) buy

verb (infinitive) be cold (of weather)

verb (infinitive) kiss

verb (infinitive) send

verb (infinitive) break

verb (infinitive) killed, be

verb (infinitive) suck (breast)

verb (infinitive) know each other

cocks

crabs

crows

net

noun (good) evening

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

malaria

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

money

noun dawn

noun (good) afternoon

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

saliva

teeth

bucks

wind, air

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

old person

female

valley

noun man (adult male human)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun tree (not log)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

neck (not nape)

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

noun neck (not nape)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

Please

yesterday

noun horn (of bull etc.)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun horn (of bull etc.)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun sea, lake; seas, lakes

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

spear

how

little

ant

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

intestines

grass

noun people

Speaker: Reggemore Marongedze

urine

tooth (front, rather than molar)

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

verb owl