несть
Russian
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editBorrowed from Old Church Slavonic нѣсть (něstĭ).
Alternative forms
edit- нѣсть (něstʹ) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
Predicative
editнесть • (nestʹ)
- (ecclesiastic or poetic) there is no, there are no [with genitive ‘something’ and у (u, + genitive) ‘possessed by someone’] (often idiomatically translated by English not have with the object of у (u) as the subject)
Etymology 2
editVerb
editнесть • (nestʹ) impf