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

Determinative

This is a sign that comes at the end of words to indicate their meaning. For instance, the signrepresents the sun disk and is a determinative at the end of words indicating the sun and its rising, light and the notion of time.

Examples

ra

The Sun

hrw

Day

Sw

Shadow

wbn

To rise

sf

Yesterday

The signrefers to boats and is a meaning sign for a number of words

Examples

dpt

Boat

na

To sail

Haw

Ship

Xd

Fare northwards

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