Shona English

save

black (colour)

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

pull

fight

push

spit

escape

kiss

gather

lung

branch

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun hole

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.)

sweet

ghost

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun skin (person’s)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun mountain (not hill)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

eagle

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

dust

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

adjective baby

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

adjective big

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun louse

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

chief

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

adjective (cl. 9) new

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb (infinitive) catch, hold

verb (infinitive) help

verb (infinitive) tear

verb (infinitive) undress

verb (infinitive) cry

verb (infinitive) drunk, get

verb (infinitive) feed

verb (infinitive) protect

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) breathe

verb (infinitive) wash hair

verb (infinitive) put

verb (infinitive) comb

verb (infinitive) give greetings

verb (infinitive) see

verb (infinitive) give

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) split

verb (infinitive) finish

where

verb (infinitive) be blind

far

verb (infinitive) spit, salivate

verb (infinitive) buy

verb (infinitive) come

verb (infinitive) hidden, be

verb (infinitive) close

verb (infinitive) know each other

verb (infinitive) give birth

adverb not

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

holes

crocodiles

twin

branches

money

pain

phrase How have you spent your day?

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

saliva

buck

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

lightning

nose

Speaker: Reggemore Marongedze

adjective boy

bull

[LL] noun person (individual human)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun head (anatomic)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun tail

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

language

and

Thank You

because

yesterday

seven

buffalo, buffaloes

story

bee

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun elephant, elephants

verb (imperative) burn, be hot

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

noun blood

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

right

death

proverb (tsumo) It’s when you are about to give up that you get a breakthrough

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

how

maternal grandfather

noun python, pythons

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

rope

six

adjective red (colour)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun insects

verb mosquitoes

children

urine

noun breasts (female)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun eye

name

verb owl

phrase What’s the matter?

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa