Shona English

verb, intransitive cook

verb, intransitive cry

sing

good

dry (substance)

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

see

verb enter

hot, be

be blind

fight

choose

kiss

come

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

bury

born, be

phrase he broke his leg playing ball

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

cockroach

noun hole

fist

noun liver

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

thousand

noun circle

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

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

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

pond

buttocks

noun mountain (not hill)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun bark (of tree)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun brother or sister (of the opposite sex)

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

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

throat

noun smoke (of fire)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun smoke (of fire)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun louse

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

pronoun we

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun earth (soil)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun tortoise

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb (infinitive) catch, hold

verb (infinitive) stab

verb (infinitive) fly

verb (infinitive) tear

verb (infinitive) undress

verb (infinitive) fall

verb (infinitive) eat

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) try

verb (infinitive) walk

verb (infinitive) prepare for

verb (infinitive) wash hands

verb (infinitive) wash clothes

verb (infinitive) wash someone

verb (infinitive) drink

become wet

verb (infinitive) split

verb (infinitive) dream

verb (infinitive) hit

verb (infinitive) yawn

verb (infinitive) play

verb (infinitive) watch

verb (infinitive) talk, speak, say

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) obey

verb (infinitive) burn

verb (infinitive) thirsty, be

verb (infinitive) count

verb (infinitive) know (facts)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

east

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

ponds

diarrhea

malaria

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

ants

lightning

elands

noun mosquito

trees

bull

elderly

male

mouth, lip

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

grandchild

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun gold

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

bat

Dialect: English loanword

phrase I want to eat sadza

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

yesterday

noun star

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

verb snake

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun path (road, trail; not street)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

near

spear

adjective long (not ’wide’)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun tongue (anatomical)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

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

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

five

noun python, pythons

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun monkey, monkeys

week

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

adjective red (colour)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun breasts (female)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

hundred

noun tooth (front, rather than molar)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

name

verb owl