nijeste

== 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 or nijèste (Cyrillic spelling није́сте or нијѐсте) (historical, literary, Montenegro) negative second-person plural present of biti === References === “nijeste”, 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