nbnb

Egyptian

Possibly metathesized from bnbn (“to make flow, to swell”).

4-lit.

Conjugation of nbnb (quadriliteral / 4-lit. / 4rad.) — base stem: nbnb

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
nbnb	nbnbw, nbnb	nbnbt	nbnb	nbnb

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	nbnb.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	nbnb	active + .tj¹, .tw²	nbnb	nbnb, nbnbw⁵, nbnby⁵
imperfective	nbnb, nbnby, nbnbw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	nbnb, nbnbj⁶, nbnby⁶	nbnb, nbnbw⁵
prospective	nbnb, nbnbtj⁷	—	nbnbwtj^{1 4}, nbnbtj⁴, nbnbt⁴
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, plural .sn. Only in the masculine singular. Only in the masculine. Only in the feminine.

Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 245.7