swḏꜣ

Egyptian[edit]

s- (causative prefix) +‎ wḏꜣ (“to be sound”).

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛwɛd͡ʒɑ/
- Conventional anglicization: sewedja

caus. 3-lit.

Conjugation of swḏꜣ (causative triliteral / caus. 3-lit. / caus. 3rad.) — base stem: swḏꜣ

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
swḏꜣ	swḏꜣw, swḏꜣ	swḏꜣt	swḏꜣ	swḏꜣ

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	swḏꜣ.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	swḏꜣ	active + .tj¹, .tw²	swḏꜣ	swḏꜣ, swḏꜣw⁵, swḏꜣy⁵
imperfective	swḏꜣ, swḏꜣy, swḏꜣw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	swḏꜣ, swḏꜣj⁶, swḏꜣy⁶	swḏꜣ, swḏꜣw⁵
prospective	swḏꜣ, swḏꜣtj⁷	—	swḏꜣwtj^{1 4}, swḏꜣtj⁴, swḏꜣt⁴
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, pages 292, 312.