Shona English

tear

pull

breathe

think

bark (dog)

fast

give greetings

dry (substance)

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

hot, be

dream

laugh

born, be

phrase he broke his leg playing ball

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

mother

knife

shoulder

basket

fly

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

cough

Goodbye

noun liver

phrase the dam is full

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

adjective small

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

[LL] noun abandoned home

Example: outside Mt Darwin (IM)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

mud

noun lizard

name

crab

noun mountain (not hill)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

verb rat

ten

phrase I have never read that book

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

hat

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

that

burn

verb (infinitive) drunk, get

verb (infinitive) protect

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) try

verb (infinitive) go

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

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb (infinitive) sit down

verb (infinitive) wash someone

verb (infinitive) bark (dog)

verb (infinitive) hide

verb (infinitive) stop

verb (infinitive) be good

rain

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

verb (infinitive) hear

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) to hear

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

verb (infinitive) be blind

far

verb (infinitive) swim

verb (infinitive) raise

verb (infinitive) sew

verb (infinitive) stand

verb (infinitive) sell

verb (infinitive) find

verb (infinitive) thirsty, be

verb (infinitive) hidden, be

verb (infinitive) bury

verb (infinitive) know (facts)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) recognize

west

Dialect: Manyika loanwoard

ant hills

eagles

baboons

noun (good) evening

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

pain

ants

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

stones

teeth

enemy

Speaker: Reggemore Marongedze

noun mosquito

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

valley

daughter-in-law

noun man (adult male human)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

girl

neck (not nape)

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

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

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

phrase I love my country

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

because

noun pig, pigs

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun warthog

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

blind

proverb (tsumo) Experience is the best teacher

proverb (tsumo) It’s when you are about to give up that you get a breakthrough

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

little

week

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

phrase where are you going?

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

phrase what are you doing? (informal)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun hair (on head of humans)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun hair (on head of humans)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

urine

noun breasts (female)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

summer (rainy season)

phrase What’s the matter?

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

phrase everything is fine

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa