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Serbo-Croatian
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 [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
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