нијесте

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

(Standard Bosnian, Standard Croatian, Standard Serbian) ни́сте
(regional, chiefly Serbia) не́сте

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ne + *este, second-person plural present tense form of *byti. This formation later created *ne jesmъ in the South Slavic vernaculars, which merged to become něste (attested in the 14th century). Because of the yat reflex, něste became rendered as нијесте in Ijekavian speeches.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nijěːste/, /nijěste/
Hyphenation: ни‧је‧сте

Verb

није́сте, нијѐсте (Latin spelling nijéste, nijèste)

(historical, literary) negative second-person plural present tense form of бити.

References

“нијесте” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Pero Budmani (editor) (1892-1897), Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika, Volume 4, JAZU: Zagreb, pp. 606-607

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