Shona English

verb, intransitive cook

verb, transitive cut

save

another

hot, be

escape

cold (of weather)

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

count

open

bury

born, be

pronoun who?

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

branch

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

bridge

noun hole

noun stone

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

proverb (tsumo) The cow-hide eating expert was choked by a calf’s hide.

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

ghost

noun spider

mud

verb (stem) die

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

crocodile

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun guinea fowl, guinea fowls

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

adjective big

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

yes

proverb (tsumo) The expert tree climber will be made to fall by a twig.

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

noun grass

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

pronoun this

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun louse

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

that

verb (infinitive) tear

verb (infinitive) save (money)

verb (infinitive) pull

verb (infinitive) feel warmth

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) go

verb (infinitive) die

verb (infinitive) sniff

verb (infinitive) prepare for

verb (infinitive) prepared, be

verb (infinitive) wash hands

verb (infinitive) sneeze

verb (infinitive) scratch

verb (infinitive) stop

verb (infinitive) be good

verb (infinitive) understand

verb (infinitive) to give

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

verb (infinitive) dream

verb (infinitive) ill, become

verb (infinitive) sew

verb (infinitive) buy

verb (infinitive) escape

verb (infinitive) burn

verb (infinitive) bury

verb (infinitive) recognize

not

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

bananas

mountains

verb rats

years

Dialect: English loanword

crows

noun (good) evening

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun (good) afternoon

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

stones

verb owls

noun leopard, leopards

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun impala, impalas

buck

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun heart

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

priest

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

bull

proverb (tsumo) Where you chase away baboons is where you discover mushrooms. (In solving a problem, opportunities arise.)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

female

grandchild

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

son

smell

Thank You

beard

winter

noun feather (large, not down)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun feather (large, not down)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun sea, lake; seas, lakes

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

proverb (tsumo) There is a special reason behind the death of an owl

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

here

spear

blind

noun brown-ness

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun river, rivers

noun python, pythons

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun bird

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

little

verb (imperative) say

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

thin

proverb (tsumo) Signs are not the same as results

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

adjective red (colour)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

intestines

egg

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

noun breasts (female)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

hundred