Shona English

hold

fall

throw

another

dream

sell

cold (of weather)

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

mother

stick

duck

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

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

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

name

crocodile

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun cloud (not fog), year

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

baboon

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

noun crow

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

dust

noun puddle

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

phrase I have never read that book

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun stone

pronoun this

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

proverb (tsumo) An old dog knows where to bite (There is no substitute for experience)

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

pronoun 1.sg I

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

drink

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun cock

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

ant hill

phrase long ago

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb (infinitive) be white (colour)

verb (infinitive) save (money)

verb (infinitive) protect

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) try

verb (infinitive) sniff

verb (infinitive) go to sleep

become wet

verb (infinitive) to hear

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

verb (infinitive) become hard or dry (substance)

verb (infinitive) freeze

verb (infinitive) wipe

verb (infinitive) nurse

verb (infinitive) throw away

verb (infinitive) laugh

verb (infinitive) yawn

verb (infinitive) tie

verb (infinitive) sell

verb (infinitive) take

verb (infinitive) turn

verb (infinitive) come

verb (infinitive) to lie down to sleep

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

verb (infinitive) full

verb (infinitive) born, be

adverb not

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

bananas

east

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

west

Dialect: Manyika loanwoard

net

noun (good) evening

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun (good) afternoon

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

phrase (different from simple noun) good afternoon

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

ants

phrase How have you spent your day?

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

stones

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

bucks

noun mosquito

full moon

thorns

valleys

noun cow, cows, cattle

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

adjective boy

old person

noun man (adult male human)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun tree (not log)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun hippopotamus, hippopotamuses

child

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun daughter

Speaker: Reggemore Marongedze

adjective bride

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

phrase I accompanied my child to school

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

slow

noun ear

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

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

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

adjective long (not ’wide’)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun forest

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

five

noun python, pythons

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun leaf (botanics)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

dirty

six

vein, veins

red (colour)

noun giraffe, giraffes

phrase What are you afraid of?

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

grass

children

noun people

Speaker: Reggemore Marongedze

adjective yellow (colour)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun egg

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

summer (rainy season)

noun eye

verb owl

phrase everything is fine

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa