nijeste

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

(Standard Bosnian, Standard Croatian, Standard Serbian) níste
(regional, chiefly Serbia) néste

Etymology

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

IPA^(key): /nijěːste/, /nijěste/
Hyphenation: ni‧je‧ste

Verb

nijéste, nijèste (Cyrillic spelling није́сте, нијѐсте)

(historical, literary, Montenegro) negative second-person plural present of biti

References

“nijeste”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
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