sjn

Egyptian

m

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sjn

sjn

[Old Kingdom]

3-lit.

Conjugation of sjn (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: sjn, geminated stem: sjnn

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
sjn	sjnw, sjn	sjnt	sjn	sjn

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective²		periphrastic prospective²
sjn	ḥr sjn	m sjn	r sjn

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	sjn.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	sjn	active + .tj¹, .tw²	sjn	sjn, sjnw⁵, sjny⁵
imperfective	sjn, sjny, sjnw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	sjn, sjnj⁶, sjny⁶	sjn, sjnw⁵
prospective	sjn, sjntj⁷	—	sjntj⁴, sjnt⁴
Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian. Used mostly since Middle Egyptian. Archaic or greatly restricted in usage by Middle Egyptian. The perfect has mostly taken over the functions of the perfective, and the subjunctive and periphrastic prospective have mostly replaced the prospective. Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. Only in the masculine singular. Only in the masculine. Only in the feminine.

See under the noun above.

Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 37.11–38.2
Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 213

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