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Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
- (Standard Bosnian, Standard Croatian, Standard Serbian) níste
- (regional, chiefly Serbia) néste
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 nijeste in Ijekavian speeches.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nijěːste/, /nijěste/
- Hyphenation: ni‧je‧ste
Verb
nijéste, nijèste (Cyrillic spelling није́сте, нијѐсте)
- (historical, literary, Montenegro) negative second-person plural present of biti
References
- “nijeste” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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