sṯnj

Egyptian[edit]

s- (causative prefix) +‎ ṯnj (“to elevate, to be distinguished”).

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛt͡ʃɛni/
- Conventional anglicization: setjeni

caus. 3ae inf.

Conjugation of sṯnj (causative third weak / caus. 3ae inf. / caus. III. inf.) — base stem: sṯn, geminated stem: sṯnn

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
sṯnt, sṯnj	sṯnw, sṯn	sṯnt, sṯnwt, sṯnyt	sṯn	sṯn, sṯny

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective²		periphrastic prospective²
sṯn	ḥr sṯnt, ḥr sṯnj	m sṯnt, m sṯnj	r sṯnt, r sṯnj

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	sṯn.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	sṯnw¹, sṯny, sṯn	active + .tj¹, .tw²	sṯn	sṯny, sṯn
imperfective	sṯnn, sṯnny, sṯnnw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	sṯnn, sṯnnj⁶, sṯnny⁶	sṯnn, sṯnnw⁵
prospective	sṯnw¹, sṯny, sṯn, sṯntj⁷	—	sṯnwtj^{1 4}, sṯntj⁴, sṯnt⁴
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 208.