nesam

Serbo-Croatian edit

Alternative forms edit

(Standard Bosnian, Standard Croatian, Standard Serbian) nísam
(historical, regional, Standard Montenegrin) nijésam

Etymology edit

From Proto-Slavic *ne + *esmь, first-person singular present tense form of *byti. This formation later created *ne jesьmь in the South Slavic vernaculars, which merged to become něsьmь (attested in 1406). The term něsьmь eventually formed něsamь. Because of the yat reflex, něsamь became rendered as nesam in Ekavian speeches.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /něːsam/
Hyphenation: ne‧sam

Verb edit

nésam

(regional, chiefly Serbia) negative first-person singular present of biti

References edit

^{The template Template:R:sh:RJA does not use the parameter(s): id=rABbczk4OA
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