Shona English

verb, transitive cut

verb, intransitive cry

save

pull

think

alone

dry (substance)

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

hit

fight

all

push

escape

fear

proverb (tsumo) Pools have become shallow crossings.

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

there

father

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

basket

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.)

south

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

fist

sweet

stick

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun cheetah, cheetahs

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

mud

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun lizard

butterfly

garden

noun crow

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

dust

noun bark (of tree)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

armpit

hat

noun fish

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

honey

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

adjective (cl. 9) new

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

that

noun cock

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun tortoise

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb (infinitive) catch, hold

verb (infinitive) be white (colour)

verb (infinitive) eat

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) go

verb (infinitive) blow

verb (infinitive) make, prepare

verb (infinitive) prepare for

verb phrase sit down

verb (infinitive) sit down

verb (infinitive) wash hands

verb (infinitive) lie (in ambush)

verb (infinitive) put

verb (infinitive) snore

rain

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

verb (infinitive) go to sleep

verb (infinitive) split

verb (infinitive) separated, be

verb (infinitive) be blind

verb (infinitive) hit

verb (infinitive) ill, become

verb (infinitive) stand

verb (infinitive) play

verb (infinitive) obey

verb (infinitive) sell

verb (infinitive) burn

verb (infinitive) find

verb (infinitive) hidden, be

verb (infinitive) bury

verb (infinitive) lie (on side, recline)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) pregnant, be

noun grease (fat, organic substance)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

ladder

saliva

noun leopard, leopards

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

lightning

fire

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

numeral one

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

female

noun man (adult male human)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun hunter

Speaker: Reggemore Marongedze

child

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

noun daughter

Speaker: Reggemore Marongedze

smell

noun gold

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

fly

noun warthog

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun horn (of bull etc.)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

nine

numeral two

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

blind

proverb (tsumo) Experience is the best teacher

death

eight

noun bird

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun leaf (botanics)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

sad

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

egg

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

pronoun all (of a number)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

sticks