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

Independent pronouns

Almost always starts at the beginning of the sentence.

First Person Singular

I

ink

π“Œπ“°π“Ž‘, π“Œπ“°π“Ž‘π“€€ , π“‡‹π“Œπ“°π“Ž‘

Second Person Masculine Singular

you

ntk

π“ˆ–π“°π“π“°π“Ž‘

Second Person Feminin Singular

 you

ntT, ntt

π“ˆ–π“°π“π“°π“Ώ , π“ˆ–π“°π“π“°π“

Third Person Masculine Singular

he

ntf

π“ˆ–π“°π“π“°π“†‘

Third Person Feminine Singular

she

nts

π“ˆ–π“°π“π“°π“Šƒ , π“ˆ–π“°π“π“±π“‹΄

First Person Plural

we

inn

π“‡‹π“€π“ˆ–π“°π“ˆ–π“°π“₯ , π“‡‹π“Œπ“°π“ˆ–π“°π“₯

Second Person Plural

 you

ntTn, nttn

π“ˆ–π“°π“π“Ώπ“°π“ˆ–π“°π“₯ , π“ˆ–π“°π“π“π“°π“ˆ–π“°π“₯

Third Person Plural

they

ntsn

π“ˆ–π“°π“π“Šƒπ“°π“ˆ–π“°π“₯ , π“ˆ–π“°π“π“‹΄π“ˆ–π“°π“₯

Notes:

1) Sometimes,  π“…±π“³π“π“΄π“ twt is used in place of the second person singular, as in the Pyramid Texts in the Old Kingdom.

2) π“‡“𓅱𓐴𓏏  swt  is sometimes used instead of the third person singular

3) Note the difference between the enclitic particle swt “but” and 𓇓𓅱𓐴𓏏 swt   as an independent pronoun.

Uses of Independent Pronoun

a) As a subject in sentences with a nominal predicate.

π“Œπ“°π“Ž‘π“‡‹π“π“°π“†‘π“€€π“Ž‘

ink it.k

I am your father.

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