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Middle Egyptian II

The verb system, from the infinitive and the sḏm=f to participles, the passive and negation, then real texts in short passages: stelae, Sinuhe, the Eloquent Peasant and the Rosetta Stone.

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Unit 1 The Verb

5 topics

Roots, verb classes, the weak verbs and the verb forms of Middle Egyptian.

  1. Verb Roots
  2. Verb Classes
  3. Causative Verbs
  4. The Irregular Verbs
  5. The Verb Forms at a Glance

Unit 2 The Infinitive

3 topics

The verb as a noun: its forms and uses.

  1. Forms of the Infinitive
  2. Using the Infinitive
  3. Subjects and Objects of the Infinitive

Unit 3 The sḏm=f

5 topics

The suffix conjugation: form, subject and meanings.

  1. The sḏm=f
  2. Noun Subjects and Word Order
  3. What the sḏm=f Means
  4. The sḏm=f of Weak Verbs
  5. rdj with the sḏm=f: "Cause That"

Unit 4 The sḏm.n=f

3 topics

The past and completed form with .n.

  1. The sḏm.n=f
  2. What the sḏm.n=f Means
  3. jw sḏm.n=f in Narrative

Unit 5 The Stative

4 topics

The old perfective: its endings, meanings and use in sentences.

  1. Stative Endings
  2. What the Stative Means
  3. The Stative in Sentences
  4. The Stative or the sḏm.n=f?

Unit 6 Participles and Relative Forms

5 topics

Verbal adjectives: active and passive participles, relative forms, and ntj.

  1. Active Participles
  2. Passive Participles
  3. Participles in Phrases
  4. Relative Forms
  5. The Relative Adjective ntj

Unit 7 The Passive

2 topics

The sḏm.tw=f and other ways to say what was done.

  1. The sḏm.tw=f Passive
  2. Other Ways to Say the Passive

Unit 8 Negation

5 topics

n and nn, the negative verb tm, and negative commands with m.

  1. Negation with n
  2. nn, "There Is No"
  3. The sḏmt=f: "Not Yet" and "Until"
  4. The Negative Verb tm
  5. Do Not!

Unit 9 Clauses

6 topics

Circumstantial clauses, conditions, purpose, the pseudoverbal construction, and the debated emphatic forms.

  1. Circumstantial Clauses
  2. Conditions with jr
  3. Purpose and Result
  4. The Pseudoverbal Construction
  5. Clauses After Indefinite Nouns
  6. Emphatic Forms: A Debated Idea

Unit 10 Commands, Questions and Particles

4 topics

Imperatives, questions, and the small words that color a sentence.

  1. The Imperative
  2. Questions
  3. Particles
  4. jn and the Cleft Sentence

Unit 11 Reading Real Texts

10 topics

Short graded passages from stelae, tomb autobiographies, Sinuhe, the Eloquent Peasant and the Rosetta Stone, and the tools to read them.

  1. Reading a Middle Kingdom Stela
  2. Families on Stelae
  3. Tomb Autobiographies
  4. Sinuhe: The Opening
  5. Sinuhe: The Flight
  6. The Eloquent Peasant
  7. The Rosetta Stone in Hieroglyphs
  8. From Transliteration to Good English
  9. Using a Sign List
  10. Using a Dictionary
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