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It is wrong to think that every hieroglyph stands for an entire word - a few do, but the huge majority are sound-signs used to spell out words in the ancient Egyptian language.

The weak verb meaning "to be able to do something" is gmi, spelled out with the black ibis sign (gm) plus the phonetic complement owl sign (m). In order to make this negative you add the joined arms sign (n) in front, and add .n=f after the verb stem for the meaning "it":

n gm.n=f "it is not possible". Since vowels were not written in hieroglyphs we can never know how this was pronounced.

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