нисте
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
- (Standard Montenegrin) нијѐсте
- (regional, chiefly Serbia) не́сте
- (historical, regional) није́сте
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 нисте in Ikavian speeches.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nǐːste/
- Hyphenation: ни‧сте
Verb
ни́сте (Latin spelling níste)
- (Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia) negative second-person plural present of бити
References
- “нисте” in Hrvatski jezični portal
- Pero Budmani, editor (1892-1897), “jesam”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 4, Zagreb: JAZU, page 606