Shona English

return

verb try

do

hard

dream

fight

open

vagina

shoulder

cockroach

noun stone

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

fist

sweet

boat

cough

proverb (tsumo) The soil knows when a baby mouse is sick. (Someone close can feel anything going on in your life).

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

ghost

chin

waist

noun skin (person’s)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

elbow

noun cloud (not fog), year

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

dust

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

wind

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun bark (of tree)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

adjective big

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun fish

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

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

four

chief

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

kidney(s)

pronoun 2.sg you

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun sand (opposite to following)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun tortoise

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb (infinitive) stab

verb (infinitive) cook

burn

verb (infinitive) undress

verb (infinitive) pull

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

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb (infinitive) throw

verb (infinitive) drink

become wet

verb (infinitive) hear

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) see

verb (infinitive) answer

verb (infinitive) be hot, set on fire

verb (infinitive) wipe

verb (infinitive) bite

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb (infinitive) raise

verb (infinitive) push

verb (infinitive) begin

verb (infinitive) buy

verb (infinitive) turn

verb (infinitive) burn

verb (infinitive) know each other

not

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

west

Dialect: Manyika loanwoard

mountains

tomorrow

cockroaches

noun dawn

ants

chicken eggs

verb owls

lightning

wind, air

pronoun 2.sg eland

eland

thorns

valleys

fruit

bull

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

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

rainbow

daughter-in-law

tears

noun tail

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

neck (not nape)

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

noun hunter

Speaker: Reggemore Marongedze

son

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

smell

phrase I like sadza

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

drum

noun flesh (meat)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun horn (of bull etc.)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

adjective long (not ’wide’)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

flower

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

salt

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

paternal grandfather

five

ant

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

three

vein, veins

adjective yellow (colour)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

many

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun eye

now