Active participles
The active participle in hieroglyphics is like its counterpart in English. It displays the meaning of a verb as exercised actively or passively on somebody or something like other adjective. It can either be used as an epithet or as a noun, or can be used independently.
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Perfective Active Participle
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Imperfective Active Participle
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Verb Class
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One who heard
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sDm
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One who hears
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sDm
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Strong verbs
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One who saw
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mA
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One who sees
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mAA
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Doubling verbs
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One who loved
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mr
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One who loves
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mrr
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Weak verbs
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One who gave
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rdi
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One who gives
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dd
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Extra weak verbs
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The active participles always have t ending, when they qualify a feminine antecedent and have w ending in case of plural antecedent, also in case of the imperfective, the second consonant is repeated.