Shona English

pay

bark (dog)

bad

comb

give greetings

awake

understand

finish

dream

vomit

laugh

swim

come

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

close

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

father

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

bag

brown

noun hole

proverb (tsumo) What’s good is good — milk can’t be made into a ball. (You can never add anything to what is already perfect.)

verb rhinoceros

noun liver

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

axe

noun circle

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

duck

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

adjective small

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

young

verb rat

baboon

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

throat

noun smoke (of fire)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

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

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

drink

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

pronoun we

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

that

word

noun sand (opposite to following)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun full moon

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) cook

verb (infinitive) perspire

verb (infinitive) pass the night

verb (infinitive) feel warmth

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) breathe

verb (infinitive) wash someone

verb (infinitive) rub

where

verb (infinitive) throw away

verb (infinitive) hit

verb (infinitive) fight

verb (infinitive) leave

verb (infinitive) stand

Speaker: Maxwell Kadenge

verb (infinitive) tie

verb (infinitive) squeeze

verb (infinitive) begin

verb (infinitive) talk, speak, say

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) buy

verb (infinitive) gather

verb (infinitive) killed, be

verb (infinitive) to lie down to sleep

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

verb (infinitive) recognize

verb (infinitive) swell

baboons

net

ladder

cockroaches

money

phrase How have you spent your day?

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

stones

seeds

bucks

verb ostrich, ostriches

nose

Speaker: Reggemore Marongedze

trees

proverb (tsumo) Where you chase away baboons is where you discover mushrooms. (In solving a problem, opportunities arise.)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun man (adult male human)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

girl

noun tree (not log)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

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

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

phrase I arrived yesterday

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun pig, pigs

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun feather (large, not down)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

orphan

noun warthog

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

Excuse Me

spear

numeral two

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

blind

when

noun python, pythons

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun lion, lions

Speaker: Reggemore Marongedze

three

intestines

phrase what are you doing? (informal)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun hair (on head of humans)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun tooth (front, rather than molar)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun sun, day

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

pronoun all (of a number)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

now