exercise cards 1

These exercises were copied using JSesh (hieroglyphic generator) from my own index cards that were created to practice handwriting and to build a flexible reference. In no particular order

you are my lord * independent pronoun as subject

his little daughter (hahaha Daddy's little darling)

you are happy with me * tw substituting for ṯw

this commoner is a scribe * m of predication used to express sentence with nominal predicate (scribe)

then will you say to your son * ỉẖ preceding śḏm form "then" or "therefore" then you say to your son

they will convey me * consonant abnormally repeated probably to mark the retention of a sound that in other combinations had fallen away

a foreign land * Ỉhỉ not Ỉ3hwỉw peculiar group writing

by what means will one ferry across? Lit. with what * Avoidance of repetition of like consonantal sign in contiguity particularly with uniconsonontal words so that they aren't expressed at all

this state in which I was Lit. this state which I (was) under it * pronoun serves as subject when adverbial predicate follows

now the sun was in the sky * there's that "grt" oddity, do with it what you will

It was not in my heart

our road * consonant abnormally repeated

until he has said ḏdt･f not ḏdtỉ3･f peculiar extra letters

he is her son * independent pronoun as subject

behold you me * written mṯn n wỉ it should be mṯ n wỉ consonant abnormally repeated to mark the retention of a sound that in other conmbinations had fallen away

this evil council

behold you are my servant * pronoun serves as subject when adverbial predicate follows

the scribe Nakht * determination of compound titles preceding name of owner usually left without determinative of their own.

it is more beautiful than anything * st as subject after adjectival predicate

how beautiful is this house. (hahaha great place ya got here")

behold I am before thee * After particle, pronoun serves as subject when adverb predicate follows

a wise man Lit. a knower of things