šfw

See also: SFW

Egyptian

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ʃɛfuː/
- Conventional anglicization: shefu

Verb

3ae inf.

(intransitive, of injured or diseased body parts or floodwaters) to swell up [medical papyri, Book of the Dead, and since the Late Period]

Inflection

Conjugation of šfw (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: šf, geminated stem: šff

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
šft, šfj	šfw, šf	šft, šfwt, šfyt	šf	šf, šfy

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective²		periphrastic prospective²
šf⁸, šff⁸	ḥr šft, ḥr šfj	m šft, m šfj	r šft, r šfj

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
aspect / mood	active	aspect / mood	active
perfect	šf.n	consecutive	šf.jn
terminative	šft, šfyt	consecutive	šf.jn
perfective³	šf	obligative¹	šf.ḫr
imperfective	šf, šfy	obligative¹	šf.ḫr
prospective³	šfw, šf, šfy	potentialis¹	šf.kꜣ
subjunctive	šf, šfy	potentialis¹	šf.kꜣ

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
aspect / mood	active	active	passive
perfect	šf.n	—	—
perfective	šfw¹, šfy, šf	šf	šfy, šf
imperfective	šff, šffy, šffw⁵	šff, šffj⁶, šffy⁶	šff, šffw⁵
prospective	šfw¹, šfy, šf, šftj⁷	šfwtj^{1 4}, šftj⁴, šft⁴

¹ Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian.
² Used mostly since Middle Egyptian.
³ Archaic or greatly restricted in usage by Middle Egyptian. The perfect has mostly taken over the functions of the perfective, and the subjunctive and periphrastic prospective have mostly replaced the prospective.
⁴ Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. ⁵ Only in the masculine singular.
⁶ Only in the masculine.
⁷ Only in the feminine.
⁸ Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.