nḏs

See also: nDs and NDs

Egyptian

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛd͡ʒɛs/
- Conventional anglicization: nedjes

3-lit.

Conjugation of nḏs (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: nḏs, geminated stem: nḏss

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
nḏs	nḏsw, nḏs	nḏst	nḏs	nḏs

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
aspect / mood	active	active	passive
perfect	nḏs.n	—	—
perfective	nḏs	nḏs	nḏs, nḏsw⁵, nḏsy⁵
imperfective	nḏs, nḏsy, nḏsw⁵	nḏs, nḏsj⁶, nḏsy⁶	nḏs, nḏsw⁵
prospective	nḏs, nḏstj⁷	nḏstj⁴, nḏst⁴
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, plural .sn. Only in the masculine singular. Only in the masculine. Only in the feminine.

Declension of nḏs

	masculine	feminine
singular	nḏs	nḏst
dual	nḏswj	nḏstj
plural	nḏsw	nḏswt¹, nḏst²
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.

m

a commoner, a poor person
(by extension) a person, an individual
- Stela of Hekaib, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, AP 78:
  
  jnk nḏs jqr ḏd m r(ꜣ).f
  I was an excellent individual, one who spoke with his own mouth.

Declension of nḏs (masculine)

Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 104

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