Introduction
The Hieroglyphic writing
Numbers
Nouns
Grammatical uses of the noun
Adjectives and Comparison
Demonstratives
Personal Pronouns
Titles in Ancient Egypt
The Offering Formula
Infinitive
Possessive Adjectives
Verbs in Ancient Egyptian language
Relative in Ancient Egyptian Language
Attribution Adjectives
Comparative and Superlative
Fractions
Measures
Interrogative pronouns
Enclitic particles
Non-Enclitic particles
Prepositions
Anticipation in the Ancient Egyptian Language
Stative (Old Perfective)
Active participles
Passive participle
The Passive Voice
Verbal Sentence in Ancient Egyptian language
Non-verbal Sentence in Ancient Egyptian language

Coordination

Egyptian language has no special word for the coordinating conjunction “and”. The coordination of the noun is often through direct juxtaposition.

Examples

𓂧𓄿𓃀𓇭𓃉𓐰π“₯𓇋𓄿𓂋𓐰𓂋𓐰𓏏𓁻𓐰𓃉𓐰π“₯

dAb iArrt

Figs and grapes.

π“Š‘π“π“°π“₯π“Ώπ“°π“ˆ–π“°π“₯π“‰π“±π“‰π“°π“‰π“Ώπ“°π“ˆ–π“°π“₯

iAwt.Tn prw.Tn

Your jobs and your houses.

In other cases π“·π“°π“€ Hr “on” andπ“Ž›π“ˆ–π“°π“‚Hna “with”, can be used for coordination with the meaning of “and”

Example

π“†“π“°π“‚π“Š‘π“·π“°π“€π“Ž›π“€π“‡‹π“‡‹π“π“°π“ˆ–π“°π“ˆ–π“°π“ˆ–
Da Hr hwty
Wind and rain.

π“„Ÿπ“‹΄π“…±π“€€π“±π“π“°π“₯π“€€π“Ž›π“ˆ–π“°π“‚π“Œ’π“ˆ–π“°π“Œπ“…±π“€€π“±π“π“°π“₯π“€€
msw.i Hna snw.i
My children and my brothers.

π“Ž π“€€π“Œ’π“ˆ–π“°π“€€π“π“°π“ˆ–π“Œ°π“…“π“‹΄π“€™π“€€π“‚‹π“°π“€π“Šͺ𓐰𓏲
nb sn xnms r-pw
Master or brother or friend.

In this example, the word π“‚‹π“°π“€π“Šͺ𓐰𓏲 r-pw comes at the end of the phrase and it means “or”

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