Shona English

hold

help

pay

breathe

think

alone

sing

awake

hit

close

there

noun wing

vagina

cockroach

noun phrase new book

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

brown

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.)

south

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

cough

verb rhinoceros

phrase the dam is full

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

[LL] noun abandoned home

Example: outside Mt Darwin (IM)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun worm

noun brother or sister (of the opposite sex)

armpit

proverb (tsumo) The expert tree climber will be made to fall by a twig.

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

proverb (tsumo) Relationships are made complete by fellowshipping (sharing meals)

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

noun stone

noun earth (soil)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun full moon

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun cock

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

ant hill

burn

verb (infinitive) ask

verb (infinitive) eat

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) press

verb (infinitive) sniff

verb (infinitive) hide

verb (infinitive) put

verb (infinitive) fry

verb (infinitive) stop

verb (infinitive) nurse

verb (infinitive) throw away

verb (infinitive) hit

verb (infinitive) bite

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb (infinitive) fight

verb (infinitive) spit, salivate

verb (infinitive) play

verb (infinitive) talk, speak, say

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) be cold (of weather)

verb (infinitive) break

verb (infinitive) pregnant, be

west

Dialect: Manyika loanwoard

crabs

mountains

puddles

vaginas

malaria

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb owls

rib

noun leopard, leopards

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun zebra

noun mosquito

fruit

bull

elderly

proverb (tsumo) Where you chase away baboons is where you discover mushrooms. (In solving a problem, opportunities arise.)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

male

back

village

tears

month

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

Thank You

phrase I want to eat sadza

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

yesterday

today

noun kudu, kudus

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

seven

slow

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

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

ground

numeral two

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

adjective long (not ’wide’)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun hand

noun tongue (anatomical)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

how

why

maternal grandfather

eight

adjective red (colour)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

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

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun people

Speaker: Reggemore Marongedze

noun hair (on head of humans)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun hair (on head of humans)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun breasts (female)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb owl

noun sun, day

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

now

phrase everything is fine

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa