English

Contraction

niste

1. (obsolete) ne wiste; did not know

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Anagrams

• inset, nites, set in, sient, snite, stein, Stein, tines, tsine

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɪstə/

Verb

niste

1. First-person singular present of nisten.
2. First-person singular subjunctive I of nisten.
3. Third-person singular subjunctive I of nisten.
4. Imperative singular of nisten.

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Standard Montenegrin) nijèste
• (regional, chiefly Serbia) néste
• (historical, regional) nijéste

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 niste in Ikavian speeches.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nǐ:ste/
• Hyphenation: ni‧ste

Verb

níste ‎(Cyrillic spelling ни́сте)

1. (Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia) negative second-person plural present tense form of biti.

References

• “niste” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• Pero Budmani (editor) (1892-1897), Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika, Volume 4, JAZU: Zagreb, pp. 606-607