pšn

Egyptian

3-lit.

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
pšn	pšnw, pšn	pšnt	pšn	pšn

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	pšn.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	pšn	active + .tj¹, .tw²	pšn	pšn, pšnw⁵, pšny⁵
imperfective	pšn, pšny, pšnw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	pšn, pšnj⁶, pšny⁶	pšn, pšnw⁵
prospective	pšn, pšntj⁷	—	pšntj⁴, pšnt⁴
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.

m

Declension of pšn (masculine)

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 171, 317.