Shona English

want

pull

verb try

happy

alone

good

understand

hit

yawn

swim

frighten

bury

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

lung

vagina

cockroach

bridge

noun phrase new book

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

proverb (tsumo) The cow-hide eating expert was choked by a calf’s hide.

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

stick

noun circle

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

sky, heaven, roof

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

true (not false)

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

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

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

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

buttocks

noun jackal

proverb (tsumo) The expert tree climber will be made to fall by a twig.

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

honey

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

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

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

noun earth (soil)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun earth (soil)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun sand (opposite to following)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun full moon

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) ask

verb (infinitive) dig

verb (infinitive) want, need

verb (infinitive) perspire

verb (infinitive) try

verb (infinitive) die

verb (infinitive) sit down

verb (infinitive) comb

verb (infinitive) fry

be fast, hurry

verb (infinitive) lie (tell untruth)

verb (infinitive) to hear

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

verb (infinitive) understand

verb (infinitive) finish

verb (infinitive) vomit

verb (infinitive) yawn

verb (infinitive) swim

verb (infinitive) leave

verb (infinitive) sew

verb (infinitive) tie

verb (infinitive) play

verb (infinitive) sell

verb (infinitive) fear

verb (infinitive) break

verb (infinitive) come

verb (infinitive) to lie down to sleep

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

verb (infinitive) hunt

verb (infinitive) lie (on side, recline)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

bananas

crabs

crocodiles

years

Dialect: English loanword

puddles

lungs

twin

malaria

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

phrase (different from simple noun) good afternoon

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

stones

raw

noun mosquito

thorns

fire

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

back

child

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

phrase I was at the market

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

beard

because

noun feather (large, not down)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

fly

slow

noun sea, lake; seas, lakes

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

buffalo, buffaloes

noun elephant, elephants

here

spear

noun blood

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun brown-ness

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

paternal grandfather

phrase what is your name? (informal, fast speech)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

phrase what is your name? (informal)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

adjective yellow (colour)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun breasts (female)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

pronoun all (of a number)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

sticks

waists