Shona English

help

verb try

awake

tired

dream

hit

fight

sew

gather

come

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

count

branch

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

vagina

banana

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

bag

proverb (tsumo) What’s good is good — milk can’t be made into a ball. (You can never add anything to what is already perfect.)

sweet

pronoun what?

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

ghost

mud

young

verb (stem) die

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

buttocks

armpit

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

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

chicken

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun grass

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

pronoun 1.sg I

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

adjective (cl. 9) new

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

kidney(s)

verb (infinitive) catch, hold

verb (infinitive) save (money)

verb (infinitive) breathe

verb (infinitive) blow

verb (infinitive) bark (dog)

verb (infinitive) hide

verb (infinitive) comb

verb (infinitive) smell

verb (infinitive) go to sleep

verb (infinitive) become hard or dry (substance)

verb (infinitive) to give

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

where

verb (infinitive) be hot, set on fire

verb (infinitive) be blind

verb (infinitive) hit

verb (infinitive) choose

verb (infinitive) yawn

verb (infinitive) swim

verb (infinitive) push

verb (infinitive) squeeze

verb (infinitive) begin

verb (infinitive) obey

verb (infinitive) gather

verb (infinitive) know each other

ant hills

crabs

baboons

noun dawn

noun (good) afternoon

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

nests

thief

noun impala, impalas

nose

Speaker: Reggemore Marongedze

thorns

fire

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

noun heart

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

bull

elderly

old person

younger brother

phrase How are you? (literal: Are you happy?)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

farmer

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

girl

noun tail

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun hunter

Speaker: Reggemore Marongedze

noun water

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

bat

Dialect: English loanword

fly

seven

noun horn (of bull etc.)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun star

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun claw, claws

noun ear

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

numeral two

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun hand

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun hand

noun forest

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

how

maternal grandfather

ant

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

six

three

red (colour)

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: Ignatius Mabasa

noun hair (on head of humans)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun egg

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun breasts (female)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni