Chichewa lemmas, categorized by their part of speech.

• Category:Chichewa adjectives: Chichewa terms that give attributes to nouns, extending their definitions.
• Category:Chichewa adverbs: Chichewa terms that modify clauses, sentences and phrases directly.
• Category:Chichewa conjunctions: Chichewa terms that connect words, phrases or clauses together.
• Category:Chichewa ideophones: Chichewa terms that evoke an idea, especially a sensation or impression, with a sound.
• Category:Chichewa interjections: Chichewa terms that express emotions, sounds, etc. as exclamations.
• Category:Chichewa morphemes: Chichewa word-elements used to form full words.
• Category:Chichewa multiword terms: Chichewa lemmas that are a combination of multiple words, including idiomatic combinations.
• Category:Chichewa nouns: Chichewa terms that indicate people, beings, things, places, phenomena, qualities or ideas.
• Category:Chichewa numerals: Chichewa terms that quantify nouns.
• Category:Chichewa particles: Chichewa terms that do not belong to any of the inflected grammatical word classes, often lacking their own grammatical functions and forming other parts of speech or expressing the relationship between clauses.
• Category:Chichewa phrases: Chichewa groups of words elaborated to express ideas, not necessarily phrases in the grammatical sense.
• Category:Chichewa prepositions: Chichewa adpositions that are placed before their objects.
• Category:Chichewa pronouns: Chichewa terms that refer to and substitute nouns.
• Category:Chichewa verbs: Chichewa terms that indicate actions, occurrences or states.