Shona English

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black (colour)

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

alone

awake

wet, become

all

push

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

vagina

noun hyena

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

basket

bag

fly

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

blue

noun bone

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

finger, thumb, toe

proverb (tsumo) The soil knows when a baby mouse is sick. (Someone close can feel anything going on in your life).

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

chest

ghost

chin

noun spider

young

noun belly (lower part of body, abdomen), stomach

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

fence

buttocks

noun cloud (not fog), year

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

depression in rock

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun puddle

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun guinea fowl, guinea fowls

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

hat

noun fish

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

honey

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

house

four

pronoun 1.sg I

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

this

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

chief

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb (infinitive) undress

verb (infinitive) cut

verb (infinitive) want, need

verb (infinitive) drunk, get

verb (infinitive) pull

verb (infinitive) to eat

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

verb (infinitive) wash clothes

verb (infinitive) hide

verb (infinitive) fry

verb (infinitive) hear

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) understand

far

verb (infinitive) bite

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb (infinitive) raise

verb (infinitive) arrive

verb (infinitive) obey

verb (infinitive) count

verb (infinitive) hunt

verb (infinitive) know (facts)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

east

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

ant hills

crocodiles

net

cockroaches

pain

chicken eggs

verb owls

rib

wind, air

pronoun 2.sg eland

thorns

noun heart

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

fruit

priest

hive

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

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

daughter-in-law

noun tree (not log)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

grandchild

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

adjective bride

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

phrase I was at the market

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

because

yesterday

today

noun feather (large, not down)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun warthog

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

seven

story

verb snake

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

near

here

proverb (tsumo) Experience is the best teacher

when

noun forest

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

five

noun lion, lions

Speaker: Reggemore Marongedze

proverb (tsumo) Signs are not the same as results

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

adjective yellow (colour)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun breasts (female)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

ankle

phrase What’s the matter?

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

pronoun all (of a number)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa