nesmo
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
- (Standard Bosnian, Standard Croatian, Standard Serbian) nísmo
- (Standard Montenegrin) nijèsmo
- (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 nesmo in Ekavian speeches.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /něːsmo/
- Hyphenation: ne‧smo
Verb
nésmo (Cyrillic spelling не́смо)
- (regional, chiefly Serbia) negative first-person plural present of biti
References
- Pero Budmani, editor (1892-1897), “jesam”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 4, Zagreb: JAZU, page 606