Shona English

save

sing

throw

hot, be

yawn

escape

count

knife

vagina

shoulder

noun hyena

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

basket

chin

Goodbye

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

axe

noun circle

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun skin (person’s)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun jackal

elbow

verb rat

dust

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

chief

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb (infinitive) dig

verb (infinitive) press

verb (infinitive) think

verb phrase sit down

verb (infinitive) wash someone

verb (infinitive) to hear

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

where

verb (infinitive) answer

verb (infinitive) be hot, set on fire

far

verb (infinitive) hit

verb (infinitive) bite

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb (infinitive) ill, become

verb (infinitive) yawn

verb (infinitive) tie

verb (infinitive) come

verb (infinitive) close

verb (infinitive) full

not

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

not

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

bananas

crabs

diarrhea

twin

vaginas

noun hyenas

cockroaches

money

flowers

noun dawn

noun (good) afternoon

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

phrase How have you spent your day?

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

stones

verb owls

thief

seeds

wind, air

noun seed

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

bulls

fire

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

elderly

younger sister

noun tail

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

neck (not nape)

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

adjective bride

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

smell

bat

Dialect: English loanword

noun feather (large, not down)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun kudu, kudus

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun flesh (meat)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun horn (of bull etc.)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun sea, lake; seas, lakes

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun elephant, elephants

ground

noun brown-ness

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

five

noun leaf (botanics)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

little

noun lion, lions

Speaker: Reggemore Marongedze

rope

proverb (tsumo) Signs are not the same as results

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

eyelash

phrase what is your name? (informal, fast speech)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

intestines

grass

noun hair (on head of humans)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun hair (on head of humans)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

urine

noun breasts (female)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun tooth (front, rather than molar)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

proverb (tsumo) The tooth is a fool, it smiles even at one’s enemy. (Appearances can be deceiving.)

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

ankle

verb owl

waists

phrase everything is fine

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa