Chikwereti

Chikwereti (loan, debt) zvinoreva mari yokupihwa inofanirwa kuzodzorerwa. Mabhanga ane donzvo iroro rokukweretesa mari.

• Kunonzi izwi rokuti chikwereti rakabva kuAfrikaans inoti skuld. ChiShona chakras chinoti mungava kureva chikwereti - pahuwandu toti mingava.

Mamwe Mazwi

• Ngava, mangava, mungava, gwanya, magwanya kana mhaka - apa kureva chikwereti.
• Kukwereta kana kutora mungava (to borrow) ndiko kunoitwa nemukumbiri wemari.
• Gwanya kana magwanya (Debt) apa kureva Chikwereti. Zvichida ndipo panobva zita rokuti Magwanyata?
• Kutora mutari (borrow grain).
• Mutari kana mutare (a loan of foodstuff).
• Kuposa kana kuposha (borrow, exchange).
• Kuposana kana kuposhana (exchange). Zvichida ndipo panobva zita rokuti Maposa??
• Kukweretesa (to lend) ndiko kunoitwa nemukumbidzi wemari.

Tsumo

• Ngava hariripi rimwe ngava. A debt does not settle another debt.
• Mungava haaripi mumwe mungava. A debt does not give to its fellow debt.

Mitauro yeBantu

• VaNyungwe neVaWabo vanoti mangawa (n. debt) kureva mangava.
• Basotho vanoti sekoloto kana likoloto (n. debt) vachireva chikwereti.
• Barotse vanoti mukolotisi (n. lender, money-lender, etc) kureva munhu anokweretesa.
• VaRwanda vanoti umwenda (n. debt) kureva chikwereti. VaGungu vanoti Ibanza (n. debt), kureva chikwereti.
• VaGungu vanoti kuhora (to lend money), kureva kukweretesa mari. Mang'anja vanoti kubwereka (borrow) kureva kukwereta.