Tsumo dzinotaura zveukama

Mai musuva usingasevwi mumuto

English translation: A mother is a morsel which needs no dipping into gravy

Hukwana inodya, ndeiri pana mai

English translation: The chick that feeds is the one that is close to its mother

Matukirwo ababa, kunema mwana

English translation: The way to scold a father is to chide their child

Wanzi baba, wada kamusha kake

English translation: He who is addressed as father has chosen to have his own home

Waita mbereko, ada kusuka machira

English translation: A person who has a carrying cloth (borne a child) has chosen to wash napkins and blankets

Abereka, atochena mwoyo

English translation: One who has borne children has to be patient

Ukama hausukwi nemvura ukabva

English translation: Kinship is not washed away with water

Chawawana idya nehama, mutorwa ane hanganwa

English translation: Eat what you have with a kinsman, a stranger forgets

Mukwasha mukuyu, haapere kudyiwa

English translation: A son-in-law is a baobab tree, he never stops being eaten

Kutumikai kwomukwambo, kutaurira mbuya kuti gapu renyama ratsva?

English translation: Why is it easy to send a son-in-law to tell his mother-in-law that the pot of relish is burnt?

Chinokumbidzanwa inguo, mukadzi haakumbidzanwi

English translation: Clothes may be shared but not a wife

Mukadzi womumwe, ndimbuya

English translation: Someone's wife is like a mother-in-law

Kuziva mbuya huudzwa

English translation: To know your grandmother someone has to tell you

Vagara imba imwe, vava varumudzani

English translation: Those who stay in the same house behave like children who follow each other by birth