Prepositions

Commonly appearing prepositions

Simple Prepositions

Hieroglyphs	Transliteration	English
	jn	by
	m	in, on, with, from, as, consisting of, by
	mj	like, according to, as well as
	n	to, for, because of
	r	to, toward, against at the time of, concerning
	ḥꜣ	behind, around
	ḥnꜥ	together with, and
	ḫft	in front of, in accordance with, as well as, at the time of, when
	ḫnt	in front of, among
	ḫr	with, near, under (a king), to (a person), by (agent)
	ḫt	through, pervading
	ẖr	under, carrying (a load)
	tp	upon
	ḏr	since

Compound Prepositions with m m

Hieroglyphs	Transliteration	English
	jm.jjtw	between, in the midst of
	m-ꜥ	together with, in the passion of, in the charge of, from, through
	m-bꜣḥ	in the presence of
	m-hꜣw	in the neighborhood of, at the time of
	m-ḥꜣ.t	in front of, at the prospect of
	m-ḥꜣw	in excess of
	m-ḥꜣw-ḥr	in addition to, over and above, except
	m-ḥrj-jb	in the midst of
	m-ḫmt	in the absence of, without
	m-ẖnw	within, in, out of (for example, a room)
	m-sꜣ	in the back of, behind, following after
	m-qꜣb (n)	in the midst of, in the folds of
	m-mj.tt	likewise, similarly
,,	mm	among

Compound Prepositions with r r

Hieroglyphs	Transliteration	English
	r-ꜥ	beside
	r-mꜣw (n)	in the sight of
	r-mn-m	as far as
	r-rḫt	to the knowledge of
	r-ḥꜣ	out, outside
	r-ḥꜣ.t	in front of, before (temporally and spatially)
	r-sꜣ	toward the back of, after (temporally)
	r-gs	beside, at the side of, in the company of
	r-ḏr	all, whole, entire

Compound Prepositions with ḥr ḥr

Hieroglyphs	Transliteration	English
	wpw-ḥr	separated from, except, but
	ḥr.jj	who, which is upon, who is higher, upper, having authority over
	ḥr-ḫw	in exclusion of, except
	ḥr-sꜣ	toward the back of, upon, outside, after
	ḥr-ꜥ.wjj	immediately
	ḥr-jb	in the middle, midst of
	ḥr-tp	on behalf of

Other Compound Prepositions

Hieroglyphs	Transliteration	English
	ḫft-ḥr	in front of, before (a person or thing)
	ẖr-ꜥ	under the hand of, in charge of
	ẖr-ḥꜣ.t	before (spatially and temporally), in front of (superior in rank, in procession)
	n-jb	for the sake of, in order that
	n-mrw.t	in order that
	tp-ꜥ	before