ḏrḏr

Egyptian[edit]

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɛrd͡ʒɛr/
- Conventional anglicization: djerdjer

4-lit.

Conjugation of ḏrḏr (quadriliteral / 4-lit. / 4rad.) — base stem: ḏrḏr

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
ḏrḏr	ḏrḏrw, ḏrḏr	ḏrḏrt	ḏrḏr	ḏrḏr

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
aspect / mood	active	active	passive
perfect	ḏrḏr.n	—	—
perfective	ḏrḏr	ḏrḏr	ḏrḏr, ḏrḏrw⁵, ḏrḏry⁵
imperfective	ḏrḏr, ḏrḏry, ḏrḏrw⁵	ḏrḏr, ḏrḏrj⁶, ḏrḏry⁶	ḏrḏr, ḏrḏrw⁵
prospective	ḏrḏr, ḏrḏrtj⁷	ḏrḏrwtj^{1 4}, ḏrḏrtj⁴, ḏrḏrt⁴
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.

Declension of ḏrḏr (perfective active participle)

	masculine	feminine
singular	ḏrḏr	ḏrḏrt
dual	ḏrḏrwj	ḏrḏrtj
plural	ḏrḏrw	ḏrḏrwt¹, ḏrḏrt²
Archaic in Middle Egyptian when modifying a noun. From Middle Egyptian, this feminine singular form was generally used for the plural. In Late Egyptian, the masculine singular form was used with all nouns.

Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 604