. ISO 3166-1country code forRepublic of China ,tw .
.tw
TheccTLD forRepublic of China (Taiwan) as assigned by theIANA .
impersonal suffix pronoun
( Middle Egyptian , Late Egyptian ) used as the impersonal subject of an adverbial predicate or verb form ;one ,someone orsomething unspecified used as a substitute for noun phrases referring to the king [since the New Kingdom] In the sense referring to the king, this pronoun is conventionally translated as capitalized “One”.
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of.tw
( Middle Egyptian , Late Egyptian ) forms thepassive of most verb forms See under the pronoun above.
sg 2. stative ending ;
f sg 3. stative ending ;( later )
c stative ending
( Late Egyptian , Neo-Middle Egyptian , attached to a stative verb form) alternative form of.tj ( “ you, she, her ” ) ( Late Egyptian , attached to a stative verb form) the general (unmarked) stative ending, used with all genders and numbers By the end of the 20th Dynasty, all stative endings were levelled to this single form,.tw , or (interchangeably) simply not written at all. After that time all the written forms of the traditional stative endings no longer represented separate morphemes in the spoken language but were mere allographs of.tw or ∅.
Old Egyptian personal pronouns number first person second person third person masculine feminine masculine feminine suffix pronouns singular ∅ .j .k ,.kj 1 .ṯ ,.ṯn .f ,.fj 1 .s ,.sj 1 dual .nj .ṯnj .snj plural .n .ṯn .sn enclitic (‘dependent’) pronouns singular w ,wj ,wy kw ,k ,ṯw ,ṯ ṯm ,ṯn sw ,s s dual — ṯnj snj plural n ṯn sn stressed (‘independent’) pronouns singular jnk ṯwt ṯmt swt stt dual — — ntsnj plural — ntṯn ntsn ,jntsn stative (‘pseudoparticiple’) endings singular .kj ,.k .tj ,.t ∅ .j .tj ,.t dual — .tjwn .wy ,.wj .ty plural .wn ,.nw ∅ .w ,.y ,.wy .tj ,.t
1 Only when attached to a dual noun or prospective participle.
Middle Egyptian personal pronouns number first person second person third person masculine feminine masculine feminine suffix pronouns singular ∅ .j .k ,.kj 1 .ṯ ,.t .f ,.fj 1 .s ,.sj 1 dual2 .nj .ṯnj ,.tnj .snj plural .n .ṯn ,.tn .sn ,.w 3 enclitic (‘dependent’) pronouns singular wj ,w ṯw ,tw ṯn ,tn sw ,st sj ,s ,st plural n ṯn ,tn sn ,st stressed (‘independent’) pronouns singular jnk ntk ,ṯwt 2 ntṯ ,ntt ,ṯwt 2 ntf ,swt 2 nts ,swt 2 plural jnn 3 ntṯn ,nttn ntsn stative (‘pseudoparticiple’) endings singular .kw .tj ,.t ,.tw 3 ∅ .w .tj ,.t ,.tw 3 plural .wn ,.wjn .tjwn ,.tjwnj ∅ .w ,.y proclitic (‘subject form’) pronouns3 singular tw.j tw.k tw.t sw sj ,st plural tw.n tw.tn st
1 Only when attached to a dual noun or prospective participle.2 Only in formal texts, especially religious texts.3 Only in postclassical (Neo-Middle Egyptian ) texts.
Late Egyptian personal pronouns number first person second person third person masculine feminine masculine feminine suffix pronouns singular ∅ .j .k ,.kw .t .f ,.fj .s ,.st ,.sw plural .n .tn ,.twn .w ,.sn 1 enclitic (‘dependent’) pronouns1 singular wj tw ,tj sw ,st plural n ,wn twn sn ,st stressed (‘independent’) pronouns singular jnk mntk ,mtwk mntt ,mtwy mntf mntst ,mntjst plural jnn mnttn mntw stative (‘pseudoparticiple’) endings1 singular .kw ,.k .tj ,.tw ∅ .w ,.y .tj ,.tw plural .nw .tn ∅ .w ,.y unmarked2 ∅ .tw proclitic (‘subject form’) pronouns singular tw.j tw.k tw.t sw st ,sw plural tw.n tw.tn st ,sw ,swt
1 Only in formal texts, especially religious texts.2 Later form.
James P[eter] Allen (2010 ),Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs , 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,→ISBN pages181, 206, 232 .Junge, Friedrich (2005 ),Late Egyptian Grammar: An Introduction , second English edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, pages81–82, 101–102 
