šfj

Egyptian

3ae inf.

Conjugation of šfj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: šf, geminated stem: šff

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
šft, šfj	šfw, šf	šft, šfwt, šfyt	šf	šf, šfy

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective²		periphrastic prospective²
šf⁸, šff⁸	ḥr šft, ḥr šfj	m šft, m šfj	r šft, r šfj

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	šf.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	šfw¹, šfy, šf	active + .tj¹, .tw²	šf	šfy, šf
imperfective	šff, šffy, šffw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	šff, šffj⁶, šffy⁶	šff, šffw⁵
prospective	šfw¹, šfy, šf, šftj⁷	—	šfwtj^{1 4}, šftj⁴, šft⁴
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. Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 132.