Shona English

kick

verb, intransitive cook

dig

black (colour)

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

return

alone

do

give greetings

see

vomit

fight

yawn

swim

tie

chew

frighten

hunt

born, be

grandmother (paternal or maternal), mother-in-law

there

father

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

shoulder

noun hyena

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

basket

adjective white (colour)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

Goodbye

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

waist

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

mud

true (not false)

elbow

dust

wind

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

grave

noun brother or sister (of the opposite sex)

yes

pronoun this

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

pronoun that

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun louse

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun sand

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb (infinitive) pull

verb (infinitive) try

verb (infinitive) make, prepare

verb (infinitive) lie (in ambush)

verb (infinitive) give greetings

verb (infinitive) rub

verb (infinitive) run

verb (infinitive) drink

verb (infinitive) hear

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) finish

verb (infinitive) enter

verb (infinitive) answer

verb (infinitive) dream

verb (infinitive) vomit

verb (infinitive) yawn

verb (infinitive) stand

Speaker: Maxwell Kadenge

verb (infinitive) frighten

verb (infinitive) full

not

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

net

ladder

noun (good) evening

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

vaginas

money

ants

verb owls

pronoun 2.sg eland

bulls

numeral one

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun woman

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

bull

son-in-law

younger brother

mouth, lip

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

noun man (adult male human)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

back

noun tree (not log)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun neck (not nape)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

grandchild

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun hippopotamus, hippopotamuses

proverb (tsumo) The son of a king loses his honour in a foreign land (literally becomes just a servant elsewhere)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

bat

Dialect: English loanword

noun kudu, kudus

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun horn (of bull etc.)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

bees

near

proverb (tsumo) There is a special reason behind the death of an owl

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

verb (imperative) burn, be hot

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

adjective long (not ’wide’)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

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

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

maternal grandfather

six

father-in-law

phrase what is your name? (informal)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

egg

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

hundred

noun tooth (front, rather than molar)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

sticks

phrase everything is fine

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa