Shona English

verb, intransitive cook

save

return

breathe

alone

awake

tired

verb enter

be blind

swim

speak

buy

turn

close

born, be

pronoun who?

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

banana

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun phrase new book

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

pronoun what?

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

Goodbye

noun liver

noun cheetah, cheetahs

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

young

verb rat

ten

grave

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun bark (of tree)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

armpit

throat

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

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

noun louse

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun full moon

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) pay

verb (infinitive) cut

verb (infinitive) dig

verb (infinitive) drunk, get

verb (infinitive) pass the night

verb (infinitive) sniff

verb (infinitive) wash someone

verb (infinitive) sneeze

verb (infinitive) put

be fast, hurry

verb (infinitive) smell

verb (infinitive) split

verb (infinitive) be blind

verb (infinitive) leave

verb (infinitive) receive

verb (infinitive) buy

verb (infinitive) escape

verb (infinitive) gather

verb (infinitive) hungry, be

verb (infinitive) hunt

verb (infinitive) bury

verb (infinitive) swell

verb (infinitive) pregnant, be

east

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

puddles

tomorrow

vaginas

seeds

noun zebra

eland

elands

verb ostrich, ostriches

trees

numeral one

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

bull

noun man (adult male human)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

tears

language

grandchild

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun water

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

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

Please

Thank You

beard

bat

Dialect: English loanword

noun feather (large, not down)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun kudu, kudus

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

fly

pipe

left

right

death

noun tongue (anatomical)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

how

dirty

ant

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

three

vein, veins

noun insects

grass

noun breasts (female)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

hundred

pronoun all (of a number)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

now