In Kabardian, like all Northwest Caucasian languages, the verb is the most inflected part of speech.
Verbs are typically head final and are conjugated for tense, person, number, etc.
However, generally, Circassian verbs are characterized as structurally and semantically difficult entities.
Morphological structure of a Circassian verb includes affixes (prefixes, suffixes) which are specific to the language.
Verbs' affixes express meaning of subject, direct or indirect object, adverbial, singular or plural form, negative form, mood, direction, mutuality, compatibility and reflexivity, which, as a result, creates a complex verb, that consists of many morphemes and semantically expresses a sentence.
In a sentence with a transitive verb, nouns in the absolutive case (marked as -р) play the role of direct object.
In the sentences of this type the noun in the subject's position is in the ergative case (marked as -м): In these sentences the verbs етх "is writing", къэщтащ "took out", къиубыдащ "has caught" are transitive verbs, and the nouns письмор "letter", уадэр "hammer", тхьакIумкӏыхьыр "hare" are in the absolutive case (suffix -р) and express direct object in the sentences, while the nouns щӏалэм "boy", пхъащӏэм "carpenter", хьэм "dog" are subjects expressed in the ergative case.
In a sentence with an intransitive verb, there is no direct object, and the real subject is usually expressed by a noun in the absolutive case.
In these sentences with intransitive verbs, nouns that play role of subject are expressed in the absolutive case: жэмахъуэ-р "shepherd", пэсакӏуэ-р "guard", лӏы-р "man".
For example: In these sentences with intransitive verbs, nouns that play role of indirect object are expressed in the oblique case: пщащэ-м "girl", жыгы-м "tree", тхылъы-м "book".
Intransitive verbs can be turned into transitive with the causative affix -гъэ- (meaning "to force, to make").
Type 3 : Verbs of this group designate repetition of action in a vividly expressed manner.
A verb by its set of morphemes can express subject's and object's person, place, time, manner of action, negative, and other types of grammatical categories.
The verbal suffix гъэ~ (ʁa~) designates causation; rendered by the verbs: to force, compel, make; to order, tell; to allow, permit; to give the opportunity to do something.
; The verbal prefix пыры~ designates action of transference over object that is of comparatively small height; ex.