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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

Sentence with an adverbial predicate

 The adverbial predicate consists of preposition + noun or pronoun or adverb.

 

Your father is in the boat.
it.k m dpt
I am with you
iw.i Hna.k
My brother is there.
sn.i im
 
 
iw.i m pr Hna sn.i
I am in the house with my brother.
 
The main phrase is iw.i m pr, consisting of a subject and adverbial predicate, and Hna sn.i is an adverbial phrase. There are two kinds of sentences with an adverbial predicate.
 
Negation of the sentence with an adverbial predicate:
In the negation of the sentence with an adverbial predicate, the word  nn is before the subject, which may either be a noun or dependent pronoun.
 
nn s(y) m st.s
It is not in its place.
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