Shona English

pay

verb, transitive cut

feed

think

fry

awake

throw away

yawn

sew

tie

take

frighten

close

there

noun cave

lung

noun bone

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

adjective white (colour)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

fist

boat

Goodbye

noun spider

axe

rock

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

young

buttocks

green (colour)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun mountain (not hill)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun cloud (not fog), year

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

wind

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

grave

noun brother or sister (of the opposite sex)

this

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb (infinitive) pass the night

verb (infinitive) breathe

verb (infinitive) blow

verb (infinitive) wash hair

verb (infinitive) snore

verb (infinitive) comb

verb (infinitive) split

verb (infinitive) answer

verb (infinitive) nurse

verb (infinitive) vomit

verb (infinitive) choose

verb (infinitive) sew

verb (infinitive) watch

verb (infinitive) obey

verb (infinitive) fear

verb (infinitive) kill

verb (infinitive) hungry, be

verb (infinitive) close

verb (infinitive) suck (breast)

verb (infinitive) know (facts)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb (infinitive) know each other

verb (infinitive) lie (on side, recline)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

east

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

ponds

eagles

diarrhea

vaginas

phrase How have you spent your day?

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

saliva

buck

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

lightning

bulls

noun heart

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

milk

old person

[LL] noun person (individual human)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

female

male

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

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

neck (not nape)

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

noun hunter

Speaker: Reggemore Marongedze

proverb (tsumo) The son of a king loses his honour in a foreign land (literally becomes just a servant elsewhere)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun daughter

Speaker: Reggemore Marongedze

adjective bride

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

and

slow

noun sea, lake; seas, lakes

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

buffalo, buffaloes

noun star

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

bees

noun claw, claws

near

Excuse Me

when

noun python, pythons

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb (imperative) say

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

thin

father-in-law

noun foot (not leg)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

adjective red (colour)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun insects

phrase where are you going?

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

children

noun egg

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

name

verb owl

noun sun, day

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata