ẖn

See also: HN, hN, .hn, h*n, Hn., ḥn, and ḫn

Egyptian

2-lit.

Conjugation of ẖn (biliteral / 2-lit. / 2rad.) — base stem: ẖn, geminated stem: ẖnn

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
ẖn	ẖnw, ẖn	ẖnt	ẖn, j.ẖn	ẖn, j.ẖn

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
aspect / mood	active	active	passive
perfect	ẖn.n	—	—
perfective	ẖn	ẖn	ẖnn, ẖnnj⁶, ẖn², ẖnw^{2 5}, ẖny^{2 5}
imperfective	j.ẖn¹, ẖn, ẖny, ẖnw⁵	j.ẖn¹, j.ẖnw^{1 5}, ẖn, ẖnj⁶, ẖny⁶	ẖn, ẖnw⁵
prospective	ẖn, ẖntj⁷	ẖntj⁴, ẖnt⁴
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.

m

tent
- c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.1–1.2:
  
  wn ẖn n grw wsḫ st nt hr m mdww
  Open is the tent to the quiet one; broad is the place of the one calm in speech.

Declension of ẖn (masculine)

singular

ẖn

dual

ẖnwj

plural

ẖnw

Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 373.9–373.18
Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 48