Learn Hieroglyphs

Introduction The Hieroglyphic writing Numbers Nouns Grammatical uses of the noun Adjectives and Comparison Demonstratives Personal Pronouns Titles in Ancient Egypt The Offering Formula Infinitive Possessive Adjectives Verbs in Ancient Egyptian language Relative in Ancient Egyptian Language Attribution Adjectives Comparative and Superlative Fractions Measures Interrogative pronouns Enclitic particles Non-Enclitic particles Prepositions Anticipation in the Ancient Egyptian Language Stative (Old Perfective) Active participles Passive participle The Passive Voice Verbal Sentence in Ancient Egyptian language Non-verbal Sentence in Ancient Egyptian language

II. The verb and its tense

 The ancient Egyptian language has three basic tenses:

Present tense:

Verbs can be in the present tense in which case there is no special ending added to the verb to distinguish its tense.
 
mAA.k sA.k m pr.k
You see your son in your house.

Past tense:

Verbs are also shown in the past tense; in this form as affix  n ‘ed’ is added to the verb-stem, (written following the determinative verbs.
 
iw iri.n.i prt wp-wAwt
I made the procession of Wepwawet.
 

Future tense:

Verbs also expressing future tense (wishes, requests and expectations); there is no special ending here that indicates future tense.
 
mAA.k pr.k
You may see your house. 

 

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