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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

Fractions

 Ancient Egyptians used  r to express fractions, meaning part below of the number used as a denominator.

1/3
r-3
1/5
r-5
1/7
r-7
 
Ancient Egyptians did not have a phonetic value for repeated fraction units.
 
2/3
r-3 r-3
3/5
r-5 r-5 r-5
4/7
gs r-14
 
 
There were specific signs for a few fractions:
 
½
gs
¼
Hsb
2/3
rwi
¾
xmt rw
 
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