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Active participles

 The active participle in hieroglyphics is like its counterpart in English. It displays the meaning of a verb as exercised actively or passively on somebody or something like other adjective. It can either be used as an epithet or as a noun, or can be used independently.

Perfective Active Participle
Imperfective Active Participle
Verb Class
One who heard
sDm
One who hears
sDm
Strong verbs
 
One who saw
mA
One who sees
mAA
Doubling verbs
 
One who loved
mr
One who loves
mrr
Weak verbs
 
One who gave
rdi
One who gives
dd
Extra weak verbs
 
The active participles always have t ending, when they qualify a feminine antecedent and have w ending in case of plural antecedent, also in case of the imperfective, the second consonant is repeated.