Shona English

verb, transitive cut

verb, intransitive cry

pull

do

throw

understand

choose

swim

spit

watch

buy

turn

kiss

gather

hunt

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

pronoun who?

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

father

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

south

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

cough

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

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

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

chin

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

thousand

duck

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (stem) die

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

fence

noun jackal

ten

depression in rock

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

grave

noun smoke (of fire)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) kick

verb (infinitive) fly

verb (infinitive) be white (colour)

verb (infinitive) perspire

verb (infinitive) try

verb (infinitive) breathe

verb (infinitive) grind

verb (infinitive) wash hands

verb (infinitive) wash clothes

verb (infinitive) do

be fast, hurry

verb (infinitive) give greetings

rain

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

verb (infinitive) to hear

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

verb (infinitive) separated, be

where

verb (infinitive) be blind

verb (infinitive) dream

verb (infinitive) leave

verb (infinitive) squeeze

verb (infinitive) escape

verb (infinitive) gather

verb (infinitive) bury

verb (infinitive) wash self

bananas

holes

west

Dialect: Manyika loanwoard

net

noun hyenas

noun (good) afternoon

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

phrase (different from simple noun) good afternoon

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

ants

noun leopard, leopards

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

seeds

nose

Speaker: Reggemore Marongedze

noun mosquito

hive

old person

female

valley

month

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

noun pig, pigs

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

today

seven

story

bees

here

ground

noun hand

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun tongue (anatomical)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun river, rivers

noun forest

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun bird

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

three

father-in-law

noun insects

phrase what is your name? (informal)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun hair (on head of humans)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun tooth (front, rather than molar)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

name

verb owl

phrase What’s the matter?

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

pronoun all (of a number)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

thumbs

waists

phrase everything is fine

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa