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Verbs in Armenian

23 words in Armenian on the topic “verbs”: Ուզում եմ (uzum em) — I want, Գնալ (gnal) — to go, Ուտել (utel) — to eat, Խմել (khmel) — to drink. 23 words can be played from recordings.

Updated September 1, 2026 · Lingofly

23 words on the topic

  • Ուզում եմ
    uzum em
    I want
    from uzel. The present tense is uniform everywhere: stem + -um + the little linking verb. The politer kuzenayi means 'I would like'
  • Գնալ
    gnal
    to go
    one verb for all motion away from you — on foot, by car, by plane. Do not mix with gnel — to buy: the whole difference is one a
  • Ուտել
    utel
    to eat
    do not mix with ka — 'there is': a different job entirely
  • Խմել
    khmel
    to drink
    kh is a deep, throaty sound, farther back than English h. One verb for water, tea and wine
  • Կարդալ
    kardal
    to read
    reading only: 'to study' is another verb, sovorel. The k is a clean k with no puff
  • Խոսել
    khosel
    to speak
    speech in general; 'to say' is asel. With someone — khosel ... het. Hence herrakhos — telephone, 'far-speaker'
  • Աշխատել
    ashkhatel
    to work
    of people and things alike: verelakə chi ashkhatum — the elevator is out of order
  • Ապրել
    aprel
    to live
    both 'to live somewhere' and 'to be alive'. Hence the praise apres — 'well done', literally 'live!'
  • Սիրել
    sirel
    to love
    of people and of pursuits: sirum em kardal. Hence ser — love — and sirun — good-looking
  • Ունեմ
    unem
    I have
    Armenian needs no 'at mine': unem means 'I have', the person is already in the ending. The negation is chunem
  • Կա
    ka
    there is
    about existence: jur ka? — 'is there water?' The negation is chka. Nothing to do with eating — that is utel
  • Սովորել
    sovorel
    to study
    one verb for 'to study something' and 'to be a student'; a third meaning is 'to get used to': sovorel em aystegh
  • Ընտրել
    əntrel
    to choose
    the same verb means 'to vote': əntrut'yunner — elections
  • Ուսանել
    usanel
    to learn
    the bookish 'to study', kin to usanogh — student. In lively speech sovorel does the same job
  • Մտապահել
    mtapahel
    to memorize
    mitk' — thought, pahel — to keep: 'to hold in thought'
  • Տեսնել
    tesnel
    to see
    the same root as in tstesut'yun — goodbye, literally 'until seeing'. The past is irregular: tesa, not tsetsi
  • Լսել
    lsel
    to hear
    no written vowel between l and s, but a short ə slips in, so the word runs in two syllables, lə-SEL
  • Քնել
    k'nel
    to sleep
    the k is a k on the exhale with a consonant right behind it: k'n-EL
  • Տանել
    tanel
    to carry
    the direction is built into the verb: tanel — carry it away from here, berel — carry it here. Hence tanelu hamar — 'for takeout'
  • Դնել
    dnel
    to put
    one word for 'stand' and 'lay': Armenian does not care whether the thing stands or lies. As in hashvin gumar dnel — 'put money on the account'
  • Կոտրել
    kotrel
    to break
    kotrvel e — 'it broke' — is this verb with a -v- insert: it broke by itself, nobody to blame. Kotrel — somebody broke it
  • Կառուցել
    karrutsel
    to build
    the rr is rolled, longer than a plain r: ka-ru-TSEL
  • Ջեռուցել
    jerrutsel
    to heat
    the j is one sound, as in jet, and the rr is rolled: je-ru-TSEL

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Ուզում եմ (uzum em) — I want. From uzel. The present tense is uniform everywhere: stem + -um + the little linking verb. The politer kuzenayi means 'I would like'.

Գնալ (gnal) — to go. One verb for all motion away from you — on foot, by car, by plane. Do not mix with gnel — to buy: the whole difference is one a.

Ուտել (utel) — to eat. Do not mix with ka — 'there is': a different job entirely.

Խմել (khmel) — to drink. Kh is a deep, throaty sound, farther back than English h. One verb for water, tea and wine.

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I want, I can, I am going, I know. The verb holds a sentence together: a few of the most frequent ones cover more everyday talk than a long list of nouns.

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Frequently asked

How do you say “I want” in Armenian?

«Ուզում եմ» (uzum em), read “uzum em”. From uzel. The present tense is uniform everywhere: stem + -um + the little linking verb. The politer kuzenayi means 'I would like'. It is one of 23 words in the set “verbs” — the rest are in the table above.

How many verbs do you need to start?

The whole set on this page is 23 words, but there is no need to start with all of it: the words you will need in the next few days are enough. Take them a few at a time — five to seven new ones per session.

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