Shona English

help

walk

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

breathe

do

see

dream

fight

yawn

sew

tie

watch

proverb (tsumo) Pools have become shallow crossings.

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

mother

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

knife

noun wing

vagina

banana

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

basket

bridge

brown

adjective white (colour)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

chest

thousand

axe

phrase the dam is full

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

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

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

pond

crab

noun worm

noun crow

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun puddle

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

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

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

throat

noun smoke (of fire)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun knee

noun stone

pronoun that

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

four

that

word

noun sand (opposite to following)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

phrase long ago

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb (infinitive) flow

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

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb phrase sit down

verb (infinitive) comb

verb (infinitive) stop

verb (infinitive) understand

verb (infinitive) bite

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb (infinitive) receive

verb (infinitive) watch

verb (infinitive) obey

verb (infinitive) buy

verb (infinitive) sell

verb (infinitive) burn

verb (infinitive) fear

verb (infinitive) kill

verb (infinitive) hungry, be

verb (infinitive) count

verb (infinitive) hunt

verb (infinitive) lie (on side, recline)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) wash self

bananas

ducks

eagles

verb rats

caves

pain

stones

lightning

wind, air

eland

fire

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

bull

elderly

old person

[LL] noun person (individual human)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

valley

tears

grandchild

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

phrase I arrived yesterday

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

phrase I was at the market

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

fly

noun sea, lake; seas, lakes

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun claw, claws

noun elephant, elephants

proverb (tsumo) An elephant never finds its own tusks heavy.

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

here

ground

numeral two

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun brown-ness

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

six

father-in-law

eyelash

noun foot (not leg)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

egg

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

noun breasts (female)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun tooth (front, rather than molar)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

now