Shona English

hold

pay

dig

pull

return

walk

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

bad

quiet, be

dry (substance)

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

verb enter

swim

tie

speak

cold (of weather)

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

chew

mother

there

father

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun cave

branch

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

vagina

shoulder

noun knee

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

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

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

noun liver

waist

frog

noun spider

nest

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

sky, heaven, roof

noun lizard

crab

verb rat

noun cloud (not fog), year

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun puddle

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun guinea fowl, guinea fowls

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

yes

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

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

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

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun grass

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun smoke (of fire)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun dog

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

pronoun 1.sg I

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun sand (opposite to following)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun tortoise

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb (infinitive) be white (colour)

verb (infinitive) drunk, get

verb (infinitive) flow

verb (infinitive) wash hair

become wet

verb (infinitive) become hard or dry (substance)

verb (infinitive) give

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) enter

verb (infinitive) be blind

verb (infinitive) hit

verb (infinitive) tie

verb (infinitive) chew

verb (infinitive) kill

verb (infinitive) come

verb (infinitive) swell

verb rats

years

Dialect: English loanword

puddles

tomorrow

noun (good) evening

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

money

nests

rib

verb ostrich, ostriches

hives

fire

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

numeral one

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

hive

bull

elderly

back

noun hippopotamus, hippopotamuses

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

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

son

singer

phrase I arrived yesterday

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun gold

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

phrase I want to eat sadza

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

phrase I like sadza

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

drum

seven

noun horn (of bull etc.)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun ear

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

ground

arm

noun python, pythons

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun monkey, monkeys

verb (imperative) say

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

father-in-law

sad

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun hair (on head of humans)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun breasts (female)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun eye