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

Words treated like adjectives

ky

Another (masculine)

kt

Another (feminine)

Example

ky s

Another man

kt st

Another woman

kyand ktare not true adjectives but nouns to which another is added in apposition.

As adjective they agree in gender and number with their noun.

This word has two different meanings:

 

nb

Ifnb follows the noun it means “Every, all”  and in this case it is used as an adjective, and it agrees in gender and number with the noun.

As xt nbt “everything”

Ifnb precedes  the noun, it means “lord, master” .

As nb AbDw  “Lord of Abydos”.

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