Shona English

walk

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

sing

bad

do

dream

tie

speak

turn

noun wing

branch

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

cockroach

finger, thumb, toe

cough

ghost

noun liver

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

Goodbye

noun circle

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun cheetah, cheetahs

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

[LL] noun abandoned home

Example: outside Mt Darwin (IM)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

true (not false)

young

noun lizard

buttocks

elbow

noun crow

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

adjective baby

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun puddle

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

adjective big

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

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

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

noun stone

pronoun this

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

kidney(s)

word

noun sand (opposite to following)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

comb

verb (infinitive) stab

verb (infinitive) cook

verb (infinitive) return

verb (infinitive) die

verb (infinitive) think

verb (infinitive) scratch

verb (infinitive) drink

verb (infinitive) see

verb (infinitive) bite

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb (infinitive) vomit

verb (infinitive) choose

verb (infinitive) leave

verb (infinitive) receive

verb (infinitive) chew

verb (infinitive) break

verb (infinitive) close

verb (infinitive) pregnant, be

noun grease (fat, organic substance)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

baboons

ladder

noun (good) evening

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun dawn

stones

days

bucks

noun mosquito

valleys

fire

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

fruit

milk

hive

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

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

younger sister

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

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun man (adult male human)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

girl

noun tail

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun hunter

Speaker: Reggemore Marongedze

noun water

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

and

beard

bat

Dialect: English loanword

phrase I want to eat sadza

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

today

noun feather (large, not down)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun feather (large, not down)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun warthog

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

seven

slow

noun horn (of bull etc.)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

buffalo, buffaloes

bees

noun claw, claws

nine

numeral two

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

how

noun lion, lions

Speaker: Reggemore Marongedze

dirty

six

proverb (tsumo) Signs are not the same as results

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

verb mosquitoes

noun breasts (female)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun tooth (front, rather than molar)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

name

noun sun, day

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata