nijesam

== Serbo-Croatian == === Alternative forms === (Standard Bosnian, Standard Croatian, Standard Serbian) nísam (regional, chiefly Serbia) nésam === Etymology === From Proto-Slavic *ne + *esmь, first-person singular present tense form of *byti. This formation later created *ne jesьmь in the South Slavic vernaculars, which merged to become něsьmь (attested in 1406). The term něsьmь eventually formed něsamь. Because of the yat reflex, něsamь became rendered as nijesam in Ijekavian speeches. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /nijěːsam/, /nijěsam/ Hyphenation: nije‧sam === Verb === nijésam (Cyrillic spelling није́сам) (historical, literary) negative first-person singular present of biti === Verb === nijèsam (Cyrillic spelling нијѐсам) (Montenegro) negative first-person singular present of biti === References === “nijesam”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026 Pero Budmani, editor (1892–1897), “jesam”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 4, Zagreb: JAZU, page 606