Verb roots in Inuktut describe actions or states of being. The verb ending tells us who is performing the action.
| takuvunga |
| I see. |
In the above word, taku- describes the action of seeing and the verb ending –vunga describes who is seeing.
By using different verb endings we can talk about different people doing the same action:
| nigivunga | I am eating. |
| nigivutit | You are eating. |
| nigivuk / nigijuk | He / she is eating. |
| nigivuguk | The two of us are eating. |
| nigivugut | We (3+) are eating. |
| nigivutik | The two of you are eating. |
| nigivusi | You (3+) are eating. |
| nigivok / nigijok | The two of them are eating. |
| nigivut / nigijut | They (3+) are eating. |