nijeste
Serbo-Croatian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
Verb edit
nijéste, nijèste (Cyrillic spelling није́сте, нијѐсте)
- (historical, literary, Montenegro) negative second-person plural present of biti
References edit
- “nijeste” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.Pero Budmani, editor (1892-1897), “jesam”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 4, Zagreb: JAZU, page 606