ḫsfj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Verb

 4ae inf.

  1. (intransitive) to sail upstream

Inflection

Conjugation of ḫsfj (fourth weak / 4ae inf. / IV. inf.) — base stem: ḫsf, geminated stem: ḫsff
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
ḫsf
ḫsfw, ḫsfyw, ḫsf
ḫsft, ḫsfwt, ḫsfyt
ḫsf
ḫsf, ḫsfy
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
ḫsf8
ḥr ḫsf
m ḫsf
r ḫsf
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active contingent
aspect / mood active
perfect ḫsf.n
consecutive ḫsf.jn
terminative ḫsft
perfective3 ḫsf
obligative1 ḫsf.ḫr
imperfective ḫsf, ḫsfy
prospective3 ḫsfw, ḫsf, ḫsfy
potentialis1 ḫsf.kꜣ
subjunctive ḫsf, ḫsfy
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active active passive
perfect ḫsf.n
perfective ḫsfw1, ḫsfy, ḫsf
ḫsf
ḫsfy, ḫsf
imperfective ḫsff, ḫsffy, ḫsffw5
ḫsff, ḫsffj6, ḫsffy6
ḫsff, ḫsffw5
prospective ḫsfw1, ḫsfy, ḫsf, ḫsftj7
ḫsfwtj1 4, ḫsftj4, ḫsft4

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.

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