Shona English

verb, intransitive cry

black (colour)

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

pull

bad

throw

fry

hot, be

hit

all

yawn

swim

speak

take

kiss

fear

there

noun wing

bag

noun phrase new book

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

brown

blue

noun knee

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun bone

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

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.)

waist

rock

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

mud

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

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

fence

elbow

noun mountain (not hill)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

depression in rock

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun bark (of tree)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun brother or sister (of the opposite sex)

honey

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

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

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

noun smoke (of fire)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

four

noun louse

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

pronoun we

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun sand

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun full moon

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitve) become happy

verb (infinitive) think

verb (infinitive) blow

verb (infinitive) snore

verb (infinitive) throw

verb (infinitive) be good

verb (infinitive) separated, be

where

verb (infinitive) vomit

verb (infinitive) choose

verb (infinitive) laugh

verb (infinitive) begin

verb (infinitive) watch

verb (infinitive) take

verb (infinitive) killed, be

verb (infinitive) count

cocks

noun grease (fat, organic substance)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun jackals

ladder

lungs

cockroaches

noun dawn

phrase How have you spent your day?

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

days

noun zebra

wind, air

noun seed

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

nose

Speaker: Reggemore Marongedze

noun mosquito

bulls

thorns

valleys

elderly

younger sister

farmer

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun man (adult male human)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun head (anatomic)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun head (anatomic)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

bat

Dialect: English loanword

today

noun horn (of bull etc.)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

buffalo, buffaloes

bees

nine

verb (imperative) burn, be hot

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

noun tongue (anatomical)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun tongue (anatomical)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

song

how

rope

adjective red (colour)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

phrase what are you doing? (informal)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

hundred

noun tooth (front, rather than molar)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun eye

pronoun all (of a number)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

waists