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Lesson 10 of 10
Help and emergencies in Shona
The words you hope to never need. Play the ten Shona words against the clock, with a note on how locals really use each one after every answer. All ten are written out below.
All 10 Shona phrases in this lesson
- Ndibatsirei!n-dee-bah-TSEE-ray
- Help!
- Daidzai chirembadai-DZAI chee-REM-bah
- Call a doctor
- Mapurisamah-poo-REE-sah
- Police
- ChemistKEM-ist
- Pharmacy
- Chipatarachee-pah-TAH-rah
- Hospital
- Ndarasikan-dah-rah-SEE-kah
- I'm lost
- Handinzwe zvakanakahahn-DEEN-zweh zvah-kah-NAH-kah
- I don't feel well
- Zvabiwazvah-BEE-wah
- It was stolen
- Inyaya yekukurumidzaee-NYAH-yah yeh-koo-koo-roo-MEE-dzah
- It's an emergency
- Ndisiyein-dee-SEE-yay
- Leave me alone
Literally "help me!". Police are 995, ambulance 994.
Literally "call the doctor".
Said in English, as in British usage.
From English hospital.
Literally "I have got lost".
Literally "I don't feel well".
Literally "it has been stolen".
Literally "it is an urgent matter".
Literally "leave me".