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3ae inf.
- (transitive) to remove clothing or bandages from (a part of the body); to bare, to expose, to uncover [since the Pyramid Texts]
- (transitive) to reveal, to disclose (something hidden) in general [since the Pyramid Texts]
- (transitive) to clear (the sky) of clouds [since the First Intermediate Period]
- (transitive) to take off or remove (a piece of clothing)
- (transitive, rare) to strip, to plunder, to despoil [Middle Kingdom]
- (transitive) to open [Greco-Roman Period]
- Synonyms: wbꜣ, wpj, wn, zn, swn
Conjugation of kfj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: kf, geminated stem: kff
| infinitival forms
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imperative
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| infinitive
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negatival complement
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complementary infinitive1
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singular
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plural
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kft, kfj
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kfw, kf
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kft, kfwt, kfyt
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kf
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kf, kfy
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| suffix conjugation
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| aspect / mood
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active
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passive
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contingent
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| aspect / mood
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active
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passive
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| perfect
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kf.n
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kfw, kf, kfy
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consecutive
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kf.jn
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| terminative
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kft, kfyt
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| perfective3
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kf
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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obligative1
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kf.ḫr
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| imperfective
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kf, kfy
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| prospective3
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kfw, kf, kfy
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kfw, kf, kfy
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potentialis1
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kf.kꜣ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| subjunctive
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kf, kfy
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| verbal adjectives
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| aspect / mood
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relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms
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participles
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| active
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passive
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active
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passive
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| perfect
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kf.n
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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—
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—
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| perfective
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kfw1, kfy, kf
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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kf
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kfy, kf
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| imperfective
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kff, kffy, kffw5
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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kff, kffj6, kffy6
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kff, kffw5
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| prospective
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kfw1, kfy, kf, kftj7
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—
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kfwtj1 4, kftj4, kft4
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- 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.
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of kfj
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| kfꜣ
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| [since the 18th Dynasty]
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Since the 18th Dynasty this word is generally written kfꜣ.
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[1], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 119.4–119.19, 120.2–120.3, 121.1, 121
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 285
