Shona English

verb, intransitive cook

black (colour)

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

another

understand

see

hot, be

escape

phrase he broke his leg playing ball

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

grandmother (paternal or maternal), mother-in-law

knife

lung

shoulder

bridge

south

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

adjective white (colour)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

fist

finger, thumb, toe

thousand

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

mud

young

pond

butterfly

ten

grave

noun brother or sister (of the opposite sex)

armpit

house

noun dog

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

pronoun 1.sg I

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

that

noun insect or small wild animal

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb (infinitive) pay

verb (infinitive) undress

verb (infinitive) dig

verb (infinitive) to eat

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

verb (infinitve) become happy

verb (infinitive) breathe

verb (infinitive) think

verb (infinitive) prepare for

verb (infinitive) grind

verb (infinitive) comb

verb (infinitive) smell

verb (infinitive) wipe

far

verb (infinitive) hit

verb (infinitive) swim

verb (infinitive) buy

verb (infinitive) kiss

verb (infinitive) frighten

verb (infinitive) kill

verb (infinitive) poor, be

verb (infinitive) thirsty, be

verb (infinitive) open

verb (infinitive) lie (on side, recline)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

verb (infinitive) give birth

verb (infinitive) born, be

verb (infinitive) pregnant, be

ducks

west

Dialect: Manyika loanwoard

noun jackals

ladder

north

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

noun (good) afternoon

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

nests

stones

raw

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

full moon

numeral one

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

priest

bull

[LL] noun person (individual human)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

rainbow

noun man (adult male human)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

village

noun head (anatomic)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun tail

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun tree (not log)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

grandchild

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun water

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

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

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

son

noun horn (of bull etc.)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun star

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun ear

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

near

here

adjective long (not ’wide’)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

when

death

flower

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

noun bird

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun leaf (botanics)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

little

foot (not leg)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

phrase what is your name? (informal, fast speech)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

intestines

noun people

Speaker: Reggemore Marongedze