The article deals with the study of linguistic means of expressing verbs on the material of the modern Kazakh language. The verb is the largest category reflecting the national peculiarities of the language both in terms of the lexical-semantic system and grammatical structure; it acts as the richest and most diverse unit of language. Verbs differ in their lexico-semantic diversity, functional richness and denoting state, actions, their lexical-semantic distribution is more varied. From this point of view, the study of the semantic and functional capabilities of individual lexical and semantic groups of the verb becomes important.In this paper, we study approaches to the definition of verbs of speech, we propose our own working definition: all verbs are called verbs of speech. The article considers it as a lexical-semantic group, studies verb semantics and offers a theoretical justification for a systemic cognitive approach to describing the meaning of a verb of speech. Describe the ways of categorizing reality in the intra-word and inter-word verb paradigms. The authors analyze existing classifications of verbs of speech and propose their own classification based on the difference in semantics.