Shona English

pull

return

feed

think

sing

throw

another

throw away

kiss

count

born, be

phrase he broke his leg playing ball

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun wing

fly

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

blue

noun bone

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

adjective white (colour)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

finger, thumb, toe

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

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

chest

ghost

stick

noun lizard

butterfly

noun skin (person’s)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

crocodile

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun mountain (not hill)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

verb rat

noun guinea fowl, guinea fowls

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

adjective big

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun knee

kidney(s)

noun insect or small wild animal

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb (infinitive) bleed

verb (infinitive) be white (colour)

verb (infinitive) to eat

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

verb (infinitive) flow

verb (infinitive) sit, live or dwell (somewhere), remain

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb phrase sit down

verb (infinitive) wash hands

verb (infinitive) wash someone

verb (infinitive) do

verb (infinitive) to hear

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

verb (infinitive) nurse

verb (infinitive) sleep

verb (infinitive) yawn

verb (infinitive) play

verb (infinitive) be cold (of weather)

verb (infinitive) take

verb (infinitive) find

verb (infinitive) count

holes

cocks

eagles

net

tomorrow

diarrhea

north

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

cockroaches

phrase (different from simple noun) good afternoon

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

nests

chicken eggs

raw

enemy

Speaker: Reggemore Marongedze

bulls

valleys

fruit

noun root (botanics)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

priest

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

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

female

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

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

rainbow

daughter-in-law

noun head (anatomic)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun neck (not nape)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

adjective bride

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

smell

phrase I accompanied my child to school

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun gold

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

Thank You

beard

drum

noun feather (large, not down)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun kudu, kudus

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun horn (of bull etc.)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

buffalo, buffaloes

noun claw, claws

numeral two

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

death

noun brown-ness

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

sick

paternal grandfather

adjective red (colour)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

hundred

noun eye

phrase What’s the matter?

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

phrase everything is fine

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa