snm

Egyptian

s- (causative prefix) +‎ wnm (“to eat”).

caus. 2-lit.

Conjugation of snm (causative biliteral / caus. 2-lit. / caus. 2rad.) — base stem: snm

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
snmt, snm	snmw, snm	snmt	snm	snm

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	snm.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	snm	active + .tj¹, .tw²	snm	snm, snmw⁵, snmy⁵
imperfective	snm, snmy, snmw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	snm, snmj⁶, snmy⁶	snm, snmw⁵
prospective	snm, snmtj⁷	—	snmwtj^{1 4}, snmtj⁴, snmt⁴
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.

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 35.