sbꜣgj

Egyptian

Etymology

s- (causative prefix) +‎ bꜣgj (“to be weary”)

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛbɑɡi/
  • Conventional anglicization: sebagi

Verb

 caus. 4ae inf.

1. (transitive) to tire, to make weary

Inflection

Conjugation of sbꜣgj (causative fourth weak / caus. 4ae inf. / caus. IV. inf.) — base stem: sbꜣg

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
sbꜣg	sbꜣgw, sbꜣgyw, sbꜣg	sbꜣgt, sbꜣgwt, sbꜣgyt	sbꜣg	sbꜣg, sbꜣgy

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	sbꜣg.n	sbꜣgw, sbꜣg, sbꜣgy	consecutive	sbꜣg.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	sbꜣgt
perfective3	sbꜣg	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	sbꜣg.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	sbꜣg, sbꜣgy	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	sbꜣgw, sbꜣg, sbꜣgy	sbꜣgw, sbꜣg, sbꜣgy	potentialis1	sbꜣg.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	sbꜣg, sbꜣgy	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	sbꜣg.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	sbꜣgw1, sbꜣgy, sbꜣg	active + .tj1, .tw2	sbꜣg	sbꜣgy, sbꜣg
imperfective	sbꜣg, sbꜣgy, sbꜣgw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	sbꜣg, sbꜣgj6, sbꜣgy6	sbꜣg, sbꜣgw5
prospective	sbꜣgw1, sbꜣgy, sbꜣg, sbꜣgtj7	—	sbꜣgwtj1 4, sbꜣgtj4, sbꜣgt4
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 158.