Shona English

help

tear

want

black (colour)

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

fall

feed

think

hard

throw away

hit

vomit

yawn

watch

kiss

close

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

father

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

shoulder

cockroach

fly

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

blue

adjective white (colour)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

cough

noun spider

nest

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

buttocks

noun jackal

elbow

baboon

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

throat

pronoun this

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun dog

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

proverb (tsumo) An old dog knows where to bite (There is no substitute for experience)

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

chief

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

adjective (cl. 9) new

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

that

noun cock

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) cut

verb (infinitive) to eat

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

verb (infinitive) sniff

verb (infinitive) think

verb (infinitive) sneeze

verb (infinitive) bark (dog)

verb (infinitive) comb

verb (infinitive) rub

where

verb (infinitive) answer

verb (infinitive) sleep

verb (infinitive) leave

verb (infinitive) stand

Speaker: Maxwell Kadenge

verb (infinitive) squeeze

verb (infinitive) spit, salivate

verb (infinitive) begin

verb (infinitive) buy

verb (infinitive) be cold (of weather)

verb (infinitive) send

verb (infinitive) break

verb (infinitive) poor, be

verb (infinitive) close

verb (infinitive) full

not

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

ducks

flowers

noun dawn

noun (good) afternoon

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

saliva

deaf

chicken eggs

lightning

pronoun 2.sg eland

noun mosquito

bull

male

noun head (anatomic)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

phrase I love my country

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun feather (large, not down)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun flesh (meat)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun horn (of bull etc.)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun horn (of bull etc.)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun sea, lake; seas, lakes

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

numeral two

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun hand

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun hand

noun tongue (anatomical)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

sick

salt

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

why

five

dirty

thin

adjective red (colour)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun hair (on head of humans)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun hair (on head of humans)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

adjective yellow (colour)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

egg

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

ankle

name

sticks