sfsf

Egyptian

Apparently a development of earlier ssf.

4-lit.

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
sfsf	sfsfw, sfsf	sfsft	sfsf	sfsf

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	sfsf.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	sfsf	active + .tj¹, .tw²	sfsf	sfsf, sfsfw⁵, sfsfy⁵
imperfective	sfsf, sfsfy, sfsfw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	sfsf, sfsfj⁶, sfsfy⁶	sfsf, sfsfw⁵
prospective	sfsf, sfsftj⁷	—	sfsfwtj^{1 4}, sfsftj⁴, sfsft⁴
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.

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sfsf

sfsf

sfs

m

See under the verb above.

Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 117.17–117.18