Shona English

tear

dig

pull

walk

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

feed

alone

another

tired

wet, become

understand

hit

swim

buy

mother

bag

brown

noun knee

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

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.)

adjective white (colour)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

duck

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

phrase the dam is full

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

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

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

garden

noun cloud (not fog), year

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

baboon

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

noun crow

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

yes

chicken

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

noun grass

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

pronoun this

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun earth (soil)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

ant hill

verb (infinitive) pull

verb (infinitive) fall

verb (infinitive) walk

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

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb (infinitive) sneeze

verb (infinitive) put

verb (infinitive) comb

verb (infinitive) fry

verb (infinitive) scratch

verb (infinitive) be good

rain

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

become tired

verb (infinitive) be hot, set on fire

verb (infinitive) stand

Speaker: Maxwell Kadenge

verb (infinitive) spit, salivate

verb (infinitive) begin

verb (infinitive) obey

verb (infinitive) turn

verb (infinitive) kiss

verb (infinitive) break

verb (infinitive) thirsty, be

verb (infinitive) hidden, be

verb (infinitive) suck (breast)

verb (infinitive) full

verb (infinitive) wash self

cocks

crows

tomorrow

noun hyenas

flowers

teeth

days

thief

enemy

Speaker: Reggemore Marongedze

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun impala, impalas

noun seed

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

elands

verb ostrich, ostriches

trees

noun root (botanics)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun woman

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

adjective boy

son-in-law

female

younger sister

noun tail

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

and

phrase I arrived yesterday

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

phrase I like sadza

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

near

verb (imperative) burn, be hot

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

adjective long (not ’wide’)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

when

arm

noun hand

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun hand

how

six

father-in-law

noun giraffe, giraffes

phrase what is your name? (informal)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

intestines

noun people

Speaker: Reggemore Marongedze

urine

ankle

verb owl

phrase What’s the matter?

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa