несте

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Standard Bosnian, Standard Croatian, Standard Serbian) ни́сте
• (Standard Montenegrin) нијѐсте
• (historical, regional) није́сте

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 несте in Ekavian speeches.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /něːste/
• Hyphenation: не‧сте

Verb

не́сте (Latin spelling néste)

1. (regional, chiefly Serbia) negative second-person plural present of бити

References

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