Shona English

pay

save

happy

bad

dry (substance)

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

hit

vomit

push

sell

kiss

break

close

bury

father

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

cockroach

banana

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb rhinoceros

noun spider

adjective small

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

rock

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

[LL] noun abandoned home

Example: outside Mt Darwin (IM)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

true (not false)

pond

noun lizard

green (colour)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun worm

ten

dust

dust

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

wind

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

pronoun that

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun earth (soil)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) catch, hold

verb (infinitive) save (money)

verb (infinitive) eat

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) press

verb (infinitive) sniff

verb (infinitive) prepare for

verb (infinitive) grind

verb (infinitive) wash clothes

verb (infinitive) wash hair

verb (infinitive) snore

verb (infinitive) rub

rain

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

become tired

verb (infinitive) ill, become

verb (infinitive) stand

Speaker: Maxwell Kadenge

verb (infinitive) push

verb (infinitive) spit, salivate

verb (infinitive) talk, speak, say

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) killed, be

verb (infinitive) count

verb (infinitive) know each other

verb (infinitive) give birth

bananas

ponds

crabs

ladder

diarrhea

cockroaches

nests

deaf

thief

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun cow, cows, cattle

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun woman

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

hive

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

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

son-in-law

female

farmer

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

mouth, lip

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

tears

noun tail

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

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 accompanied my child to school

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun gold

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

bat

Dialect: English loanword

today

orphan

noun horn (of bull etc.)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun ear

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

Excuse Me

proverb (tsumo) There is a special reason behind the death of an owl

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

when

right

noun river, rivers

verb (imperative) say

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

noun foot (not leg)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

noun giraffe, giraffes

verb mosquitoes

intestines

noun hair (on head of humans)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

urine

noun breasts (female)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

many

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun tooth (front, rather than molar)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

proverb (tsumo) The tooth is a fool, it smiles even at one’s enemy. (Appearances can be deceiving.)

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

pronoun all (of a number)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa