n hieroglyphic writing lead to the following
classification:--

STRONG VERBS.
Biliteral Often showing traces of an original III. inf.;
in early times very rare.

Triliteral Very numerous.

{ Generally formed by reduplication.
Quadriliteral { In Late Egyptian they were no longer
Quinqueliteral { inflected, and were conjugated with the help
{ of _iry_, "do."

WEAK VERBS.
II. geminatae Properly triliterals, but, with the 2nd or 3rd
radical alike, these coalesced in many forms
where no vowel intervened, and gave the word
the appearance of a biliteral.

III. gem. Rare.

III. inf. Numerous. III. _w_, and III. _i_ were
unified early. Some very common verbs, "do,"
"give," "come," "bring" are irregular.

IV. inf. Partly derived from adjectival formations in
_y_, from nouns and infinitives:--e.g. _s.ip_,
inf. _sipt_; adj. _sipty_; verb (4 lit.),
_sipty_.

Many verbs with weak consonants--I_y_, I_w_, II. inf. (_m[w]t_), and
those with [Hebrew: alef]--are particularly difficult to trace
accurately, owing to defective writing.

It seems that all the above classes may be divided into two main
groups, according to the form of the infinitive:--with masculine
infinitive the strong triliteral type, and with feminine infinitive
the type of the III. inf. The former group includes all except III.
inf., IV. inf., and the causative of the biliterals, which belong to
the second group.

It is probable that the verb had a special form denoting condition, as
in Arabic. There was a causative form prefixing _s_, and traces of
forms resembling _Pi'el_ and _Niphal_ are observed. Some roots are
reduplicated wholly or in part with a frequentative meaning, and there
are traces of gemination of radicals.

_Pseudo-Participle._--In very early texts this is the past indicative,
but more commonly it is used in sentences such as, _gm-n-f wi
'h'.kwi_, "he found me I stood," i.e. "he found me standing." The
indicative use was soon given up and the pseudo-participle was
employed only as predicate, es