nisam

Latin

Participle

nīsam

1. accusative feminine singular of nīsus

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (historical, regional, Standard Montenegrin) nijésam
• (regional, chiefly Serbia) nésam

Etymology

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 nisam in Ikavian speeches.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nǐːsam/
• Hyphenation: ni‧sam

Verb

nísam

1. (Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia) negative first-person singular present of biti

References

• “nisam”, 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