sḏr

See also: SDR

Egyptian

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛd͡ʒɛr/
- Conventional anglicization: sedjer

Verb

3-lit.

(intransitive) to lie down or go to bed
(intransitive) to go to sleep
(intransitive) to spend the night

Usage notes

This verb is often used with a following adverb clause introduced by a stative without a preceding subject; the subject of this stative is then ordinarily identical with the subject of sḏr.

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
sḏr	sḏrw, sḏr	sḏrt	sḏr	sḏr

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
aspect / mood	active	aspect / mood	active
perfect	sḏr.n	consecutive	sḏr.jn
terminative	sḏrt	consecutive	sḏr.jn
perfective³	sḏr	obligative	sḏr.ḫr
imperfective	sḏr	obligative	sḏr.ḫr
prospective³	sḏr	potentialis	sḏr.kꜣ
subjunctive	sḏr	potentialis	sḏr.kꜣ

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
aspect / mood	active	active	passive
perfect	sḏr.n	—	—
perfective	sḏr	sḏr	sḏr, sḏrw⁵, sḏry⁵
imperfective	sḏr, sḏry, sḏrw⁵	sḏr, sḏrj⁶, sḏry⁶	sḏr, sḏrw⁵
prospective	sḏr, sḏrtj⁷	sḏrtj⁴, sḏrt⁴
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.

Noun

m

sleeper

Inflection

Declension of sḏr (masculine)

singular	sḏr
dual	sḏrwj
plural	sḏrw

References

Allen, James (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, revised second edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 216, 219, 360

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