нисмо

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Standard Montenegrin) нијѐсмо
• не́смо (Ekavian)
• (historical, regional) није́смо

Etymology

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 нисмо in Ikavian speeches.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nǐːsmo/
• Hyphenation: ни‧смо

Verb

ни́смо (Latin spelling nísmo)

1. (Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia) negative first-person plural present of бити

References

• “нисмо”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
• Pero Budmani, editor (1892–1897), “jesam”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎^[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 4, Zagreb: JAZU, page 606