sbj

Egyptian

3-lit.

Conjugation of sbj (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: sbj

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
sbj	sbjw, sbj	sbjt	sbj	sbj

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective²		periphrastic prospective²
sbj	ḥr sbj	m sbj	r sbj

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
aspect / mood	active	active	passive
perfect	sbj.n	—	—
perfective	sbj	sbj	sbj, sbjw⁵, sbjy⁵
imperfective	sbj, sbjy, sbjw⁵	sbj, sbjj⁶, sbjy⁶	sbj, sbjw⁵
prospective	sbj, sbjtj⁷	sbjtj⁴, sbjt⁴
Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian. Used mostly since Middle Egyptian. 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. Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. Only in the masculine singular. Only in the masculine. Only in the feminine.

m

rebel
- c. 1859 BCE – 1813 BCE, The Loyalist Teaching (Stele of Sehetepibre/Cairo CG 20538 Verso) line 19:^[1]
  
  nn jz n sbj ḥr ḥm.f jw ẖꜣt.f m qmꜣ n mw
  There is no tomb for a rebel against His Majesty; his corpse is thrown to the water.

Declension of sbj (masculine)

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sbj

sbj

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 239, 297.

^ H. O. Lange and H. Schäfer (1908) Grab- und Denksteine des Mittleren Reichs im Museum von Kairo, volume II, page 149