- English word tales in the Shona Dictionary
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- noun , class(9)
- stem : nyaya
- variant: nyai
- dialects/origins: Karanga, Korekore, Manyika, Zezuru
- English translation
- tales
- Plural of nyaya.
Demonstrative determiners example | Shona | English | | nyaya iyi | these tales |
| nyaya iyo | those tales |
Possessive pronouns example | Shona | English | | nyaya yangu | my tales |
| nyaya yako | your tales (singular) |
| nyaya yenyu | your tales (plural) |
| nyaya yake | his/her tales |
| nyaya yedu | our tales |
| nyaya yacho | its tales |
| nyaya yavo | their tales |
last updated: Monday, March 2, 2020 at 1:08:06 PM Central European Standard Time
- verb
- synonyms: nyarira, sasa
- dialects/origins: Karanga, Manyika, Zezuru
- English translation
- tale
- 1. Account; estimation; regard; heed.
2. Speech; language.
3. A speech; a statement; talk; conversation; discourse.
4. A report of any matter; a relation; a version.
5. An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report; especially, an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie: as, to tell tales.
6. A narrative, oral or written (in prose or verse), of some real or imaginary event or group of events; a story, either true or fictitious, having for its aim to please or instruct, or to preserve more or less remote historical facts; more especially, a story displaying embellishment or invention.
Imperative example | Shona | English | | nyaya | tale (singular) |
| nyayai | tale (plural) |
Simple future tense example | Shona | English | | Ndicha nyaya | I will tale |
| ucha nyaya | you will tale (singular) |
| mucha nyaya | you will tale (plural) |
| acha nyaya | he/she will tale |
| ticha nyaya | we will tale |
| vacha nyaya | they will tale |
| chicha nyaya | it will tale |
last updated: Monday, March 2, 2020 at 1:08:06 PM Central European Standard Time