Ob-Ugric Institute of Applied Researches and Development, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russian Federation, [email protected] ABSTRACT Introduction: the work is devoted to the representation of the situation of physical pain and comparison of the features of the studied verbs in the Ob-Ugric languages. The article deals with the secondary semantics of verbs of physical impact, motion, destruction, burning, sound, and other lexical-semantic groups; analyzes the metaphorical shifts in the semantics of these predicates. The material of the Khanty and Mansi languages has not yet revealed acomplete list of verbs with the semantics of pain senses, and there is no detailed description of changes occurring in the semantics of the verb and in the structure of its actionality. Objective: to identify and describe metaphorical shifts in the semantics of verbs that convey the state of pain in the Khanty and Mansi languages. Research materials: texts of Kazym, the Shuryshkar dialects of the Khanty and Mansi languages collected by the author from informants, as well as examples from folklore collections and bilingual dictionaries of the Khanty and Mansi languages. Results and novelty of the research: for the first time, the material of the Ob-Ugric languages describes the ways of transforming verbs of physical impact, destruction, burning, sound and movement into the zone of pain nomination. The study defines classes of metaphor sources, basic syntactic constructions, identifies semantic parameters, and presents the analysis of metaphorical transfers