nḏꜣḏꜣ

Egyptian

Etymology

Reduplication of nḏꜣ.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛd͡ʒɑd͡ʒɑ/
  • Conventional anglicization: nedjadja

Verb

 5-lit.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) runny or watery

Inflection

Conjugation of nḏꜣḏꜣ (quinquiliteral / 5-lit. / 5rad.) — base stem: nḏꜣḏꜣ

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
nḏꜣḏꜣ	nḏꜣḏꜣw, nḏꜣḏꜣ	nḏꜣḏꜣt	nḏꜣḏꜣ	nḏꜣḏꜣ

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	nḏꜣḏꜣ.n	consecutive	nḏꜣḏꜣ.jn
terminative	nḏꜣḏꜣt
perfective3	nḏꜣḏꜣ	obligative1	nḏꜣḏꜣ.ḫr
imperfective	nḏꜣḏꜣ
prospective3	nḏꜣḏꜣw, nḏꜣḏꜣ	potentialis1	nḏꜣḏꜣ.kꜣ
subjunctive	nḏꜣḏꜣ

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	nḏꜣḏꜣ.n	—	—
perfective	nḏꜣḏꜣ	nḏꜣḏꜣ	nḏꜣḏꜣ, nḏꜣḏꜣw5, nḏꜣḏꜣy5
imperfective	nḏꜣḏꜣ, nḏꜣḏꜣy, nḏꜣḏꜣw5	nḏꜣḏꜣ, nḏꜣḏꜣj6, nḏꜣḏꜣy6	nḏꜣḏꜣ, nḏꜣḏꜣw5
prospective	nḏꜣḏꜣ, nḏꜣḏꜣtj7	nḏꜣḏꜣwtj1 4, nḏꜣḏꜣtj4, nḏꜣḏꜣt4
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.

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 207.