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)

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

References

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