nijeste

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

  • (Standard Bosnian, Standard Croatian, Standard Serbian) níste
  • (regional, chiefly Serbia) néste

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 nijeste in Ijekavian speeches.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nijěːste/, /nijěste/
  • Hyphenation: ni‧je‧ste

Verb

nijéste, nijèste (Cyrillic spelling није́сте, нијѐсте)

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

References

  • “nijeste” 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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