Shona English

black (colour)

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

sing

throw

quiet, be

wet, become

understand

fight

speak

take

fear

close

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

father

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

branch

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

cockroach

basket

fly

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

adjective white (colour)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

proverb (tsumo) The soil knows when a baby mouse is sick. (Someone close can feel anything going on in your life).

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun cheetah, cheetahs

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

pond

name

crab

noun mountain (not hill)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun cloud (not fog), year

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun crow

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

dust

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

depression in rock

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun grass

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

phrase long ago

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb (infinitive) pay

verb (infinitive) cook

verb (infinitive) save (money)

verb (infinitive) want, need

verb (infinitive) try

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

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb phrase sit down

verb (infinitive) wash hands

verb (infinitive) snore

verb (infinitive) scratch

verb (infinitive) run

rain

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

verb (infinitive) become hard or dry (substance)

verb (infinitive) give

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) be hot, set on fire

verb (infinitive) be blind

verb (infinitive) nurse

verb (infinitive) choose

verb (infinitive) talk, speak, say

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) send

verb (infinitive) break

verb (infinitive) killed, be

verb (infinitive) hungry, be

verb (infinitive) to lie down to sleep

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

verb (infinitive) hunt

verb (infinitive) suck (breast)

verb (infinitive) know (facts)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb (infinitive) born, be

verb (infinitive) pregnant, be

not

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

east

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

ducks

noun jackals

verb rats

ladder

malaria

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun dawn

noun leopard, leopards

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

enemy

Speaker: Reggemore Marongedze

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

hives

son-in-law

[LL] noun person (individual human)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

younger sister

noun head (anatomic)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

singer

bat

Dialect: English loanword

orphan

noun kudu, kudus

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

slow

noun flesh (meat)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb snake

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

adjective long (not ’wide’)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

death

song

eight

three

father-in-law

sad

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun foot (not leg)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb mosquitoes

phrase where are you going?

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

phrase What are you afraid of?

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun hair (on head of humans)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

adjective yellow (colour)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

thumbs