snfr

Egyptian[edit]

s- (causative prefix) +‎ nfr (“to be pleasing or beautiful”).

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛnɛfɛr/
- Conventional anglicization: senefer

caus. 3-lit.

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
snfr	snfrw, snfr	snfrt	snfr	snfr

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	snfr.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	snfr	active + .tj¹, .tw²	snfr	snfr, snfrw⁵, snfry⁵
imperfective	snfr, snfry, snfrw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	snfr, snfrj⁶, snfry⁶	snfr, snfrw⁵
prospective	snfr, snfrtj⁷	—	snfrwtj^{1 4}, snfrtj⁴, snfrt⁴
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.

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of snfr

snfr

Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 163.1–163.13
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 232