Shona English

tear

verb, intransitive cry

wet, become

verb enter

hot, be

hit

all

push

tie

speak

escape

chew

hunt

branch

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun hyena

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

brown

fly

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun bone

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb rhinoceros

noun liver

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

thousand

pond

crab

noun mountain (not hill)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

eagle

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun bark (of tree)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

armpit

adjective big

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

ant hill

verb (infinitive) stab

verb (infinitive) cook

verb (infinitive) drunk, get

verb (infinitive) pass the night

verb (infinitive) protect

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) try

verb (infinitive) die

verb (infinitive) prepare for

verb (infinitive) sing

verb (infinitive) run

verb (infinitive) go to sleep

become wet

verb (infinitive) be blind

verb (infinitive) fight

verb (infinitive) ill, become

verb (infinitive) sew

verb (infinitive) push

verb (infinitive) squeeze

verb (infinitive) talk, speak, say

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) burn

verb (infinitive) gather

verb (infinitive) come

verb (infinitive) thirsty, be

verb (infinitive) hidden, be

verb (infinitive) to lie down to sleep

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

verb (infinitive) open

verb (infinitive) give birth

verb (infinitive) born, be

holes

west

Dialect: Manyika loanwoard

baboons

phrase Tomorrow is today

Speaker: Reggemore Marongedze

vaginas

flowers

saliva

stones

rib

enemy

Speaker: Reggemore Marongedze

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

lightning

noun seed

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

eland

fire

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

adjective boy

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

phrase How are you? (literal: Are you happy?)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

thorn

back

village

neck (not nape)

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

phrase I arrived yesterday

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

beard

slow

noun horn (of bull etc.)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun star

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

verb snake

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

when

left

sick

noun leaf (botanics)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

dirty

rope

verb (imperative) say

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

vein, veins

phrase What are you afraid of?

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

grass

noun tooth (front, rather than molar)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

pronoun all (of a number)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa