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, Montenegro) negative second-person plural present of biti

References

• “nijeste” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• Pero Budmani, editor (1892-1897), “jesam”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎^[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 4, Zagreb: JAZU, page 606