nesmo

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Serbo-Croatian

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Alternative forms

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  • (Standard Bosnian, Standard Croatian, Standard Serbian) nísmo
  • (Standard Montenegrin) nijèsmo
  • (historical, regional) nijésmo

Etymology

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From Proto-Slavic *ne + *esmъ, first-person plural present tense form of *byti. This formation later created *ne jesmъ in the South Slavic vernaculars, which merged to become něsmo (attested in 1395). Because of the yat reflex, něsmo became rendered as nesmo in Ekavian speeches.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /něːsmo/
  • Hyphenation: ne‧smo

Verb

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nésmo (Cyrillic spelling не́смо)

  1. (regional, chiefly Serbia) negative first-person plural present of biti

References

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