nismo

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Standard Montenegrin) nijèsmo
• (regional, chiefly Serbia) nésmo
• (historical, regional) nijésmo

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 nismo in Ikavian speeches.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nǐːsmo/
• Hyphenation: ni‧smo

Verb

nísmo (Cyrillic spelling ни́смо)

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

References

• “nismo”, 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

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nìːsmɔ/

Verb

nísmo

1. negative first-person plural present of bíti