Ingush verbs inflect for tense, aspect, and sometimes number categories.  A sizable minority of them also agree in gender with the intransitive subject or transitive object.  All verbs have essentially the same inflectional endings but have different patterns of ablaut of their stem vowels. The regular verbs fall into 16 ablaut classes. There are three ablaut grades or stem forms: the infinitive stem (used in infinitive, verbal noun, and negative forms), the present stem (used in present, imperfect, and future tenses and converbs), and the past stem (used in the witnessed and non-witnessed past tenses, the pluperfect, and anterior converbs).   The 16-class system given here is designed for practical and pedagogical purposes, and sets up a separate class for each alternating set of vowel phonemes. It is based on Handel 2003, where a more sophisticated linguistic analysis is given and fewer classes are set up.

    In the verb paradigms below, ä is a cover symbol for what was once an independent vowel in Ingush and is still optionally pronounced by the older generation as an [e] vowel which (unlike the vowel written e here) does not palatalize a preceding consonant; for the younger generation it has mostly merged with a.
    A dot after a word-initial d, as in d.ieshar 'read', means that the first consonant is an alternating gender agreement prefix.  (The d gender form is the traditional citation form.)
 

Regular verbs
 

Class		Infinitive stem		Present stem		Past stem
		Verbal noun	Infinitive	Present	Present converb	Witnessed past	Anterior converb
1	read	d.ieshar	d.iesha	d.esh	d.ieshazh	d.iishar	d.iishaa
2	beat	d.ettar	d.etta	d.ett	d.ettazh	d.iittar	d.iittaa
3	stand	laattar	laatta	laatt	laattazh	leattar	leattaa
4	strike	tuoxar	tuoxa	tox	tuoxazh	tiexar	tiexaa
5	place	ottar	otta	ott	ottazh	ettar	ettaa
6	tell	d.uucar	d.uuca	d.uuc	d.uucazh	d.iicar	d.iicaa
7	sow	d.er	d.ie	d.uu	d.uuzh	d.iira	d.iina
8	say	aalar	aala	oal	oalazh	ealar	eanna
9	drink	malar	mala	mol	molazh	mälar	männa
10	fight	latar	lata	lat	latazh	lätar	lätaa
11	play	louzar	louza	loudz	louzazh	leizar	leizaa
12	want	laar	laa	lou	louzh	leir	leina
13	call	qeikar	qeika	qeik	qeikazh	qeikar	qeikaa
14	lie	allar	alla	ull	ullazh	illar	illaa
15	fill	d.yzar	d.yza	d.udz	d.uzazh	d.yzar / d.izar	d.yzaa / d.izaa
16	carry	qahwar	qahwa	quhw	quhwazh	qehwar / qihwar	qehwaa / qihwaa

The last four of these conjugation types have only a few members each.
 

Irregular verbs

There are ten irregular verbs, most of them with suppletive stems in one or the other tense series.
 
 

	Verbal noun	Infinitive	Present	Present converb	Witnessed past	Anterior converb
be	---	---	d.y	d.olazh	---	---
give	d.alar	d.ala	lu	luzh	d.älar	d.änna
do / make	d.er	d.ie	d.u	d.ezh	d.yr	d.ea
see	guor / d.our	guo	gu	guzh	d.eir	d.eina
stay	waar	wie	we	wezh	wiira	wiina
die	d.alar	d.ala	le / lie	lezh	d.älar	d.änna
come	d.aar	d.aa	d.oagha	d.oaghazh	d.iera	d.iena
go	d.axar	d.axa	d.uoda	d.uodazh	d.axar	d.axaa
bring	d.ahwar	d.aa	d.ahw	d.ahwazh	d.iera	d.iena
take	hwor	d.ahwa	hwo	hwozh	d.ehwar	d.ehwaa