Shona English

verb, intransitive cook

verb, intransitive cry

fall

feed

alone

hide

good

swim

escape

count

born, be

branch

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

cockroach

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

cough

chest

waist

axe

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

dust

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

noun bark (of tree)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

phrase I have never read that book

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun guinea fowl, guinea fowls

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

hat

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun louse

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

adjective (cl. 9) new

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

kidney(s)

pronoun 2.sg you

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

comb

verb (infinitive) cut

verb (infinitive) pull

verb (infinitive) pass the night

verb (infinitive) protect

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) press

verb (infinitive) sniff

verb (infinitive) make, prepare

verb (infinitive) sit, live or dwell (somewhere), remain

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb phrase sit down

verb (infinitive) sit down

verb (infinitive) wash hands

verb (infinitive) lie (in ambush)

verb (infinitive) put

verb (infinitive) do

verb (infinitive) be good

verb (infinitive) quiet, be

verb (infinitive) ill, become

verb (infinitive) choose

verb (infinitive) leave

verb (infinitive) arrive

verb (infinitive) watch

verb (infinitive) chew

verb (infinitive) kill

verb (infinitive) close

verb (infinitive) give birth

verb (infinitive) wash self

holes

noun grease (fat, organic substance)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

crocodiles

ladder

caves

saliva

noun mouse, mice

wind, air

thorns

noun cow, cows, cattle

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

fire

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

noun root (botanics)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

elderly

thorn

neck (not nape)

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

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

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

Please

noun gold

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

phrase I want to eat sadza

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

winter

noun feather (large, not down)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun feather (large, not down)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun kudu, kudus

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun warthog

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

here

nine

left

right

arm

why

maternal grandfather

dirty

week

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

verb (imperative) say

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

proverb (tsumo) Signs are not the same as results

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

eyelash

foot (not leg)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

red (colour)

phrase what is your name? (informal)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

phrase what are you doing? (informal)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

phrase What are you afraid of?

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun people

Speaker: Reggemore Marongedze

noun hair (on head of humans)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa