Common Igbo Verbs
This page contains a list of the some of most common Igbo verbs you will run into in your everyday conversations. Please review my other tutorial pages to learn how to conjugate these verbs in the present tense, future tense, past tense, and in their negated forms.
to bathe (wash body) – ịsa ahụ
to be – ịbụ, ịdị, ịnọ
to bring – iweta
to buy (something) – ịzụta (ihe)
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to call – ịkpọ
to come – ịbịa
to come in/enter – ịbata
to come/get out – ịpụta
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to cook (food) – isi (nri)
to count – ịgụ ọgụ
to cry – ibe akwa
to dance – ịgba egwu
to do/make (something) – ime (ihe)
to draw (something) – ise (ihe)
to drink (water) – ịñụ (mmiri)
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to eat (food) – iri (nri)
to get – inweta
to give – inye
to go – ije, ịga
to have/own – inwere / inwe
to hear – ịnụ
to hold – ijide
to know – ịma
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to laugh – ịchị ọchị
to learn – ịmụta
to listen – ige ntị
to look/watch – ine
to pray (a prayer) – ikpe (ekpere)
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to read (a book) – ịgụ (akwụkwọ)
to run – ịgba ọsọ
to say – ikwu
to see – ịhụ
to sing (a song) – ibu abụ / ikwe ukwe
to sit – ịnọdụ
to sleep – ihi ụra / ịrahụ ụra
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to speak (a language) – ịsụ asụsụ
to stand – ikuni / ikuli
to stay (at a location) – ịnọ
to study – ịmụ
to take (something) – iwere (ihe)
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to teach – ịkụzị
to tell – ịgwa
to think (a thought) – iche echiche
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to walk – ịga ije
to work – ịrụ ọrụ
to write – ide
