Shona English

hold

help

verb, intransitive cook

breathe

another

hard

dream

fight

tie

take

break

count

close

phrase he broke his leg playing ball

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

mother

branch

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

brown

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

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

chin

noun liver

axe

[LL] noun abandoned home

Example: outside Mt Darwin (IM)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

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

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

butterfly

buttocks

noun jackal

green (colour)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun cloud (not fog), year

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

dust

depression in rock

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun guinea fowl, guinea fowls

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun smoke (of fire)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

this

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

adjective (cl. 9) new

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

word

noun sand

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun sand (opposite to following)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun full moon

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun tortoise

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb (infinitive) stab

verb (infinitive) pay

burn

verb (infinitive) save (money)

verb (infinitive) perspire

verb (infinitive) fall

verb (infinitve) become happy

verb (infinitive) wash hands

verb (infinitive) bark (dog)

verb (infinitive) sing

verb (infinitive) do

verb (infinitive) go to sleep

verb (infinitive) quiet, be

verb (infinitive) lie (tell untruth)

verb (infinitive) answer

verb (infinitive) wipe

verb (infinitive) sleep

verb (infinitive) tie

verb (infinitive) squeeze

verb (infinitive) watch

verb (infinitive) escape

verb (infinitive) turn

verb (infinitive) burn

verb (infinitive) to lie down to sleep

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

verb (infinitive) close

verb (infinitive) bury

verb (infinitive) know each other

verb (infinitive) pregnant, be

caves

noun hyenas

malaria

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

teeth

noun leopard, leopards

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun impala, impalas

noun seed

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

elands

nose

Speaker: Reggemore Marongedze

hives

trees

priest

grandchild

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

Thank You

beard

yesterday

noun flesh (meat)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun horn (of bull etc.)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

bee

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

adjective long (not ’wide’)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

proverb (tsumo) Experience is the best teacher

noun blood

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun forest

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

salt

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

noun bird

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

ant

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

father-in-law

noun giraffe, giraffes

noun hair (on head of humans)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun tooth (front, rather than molar)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun eye