No. 440 in Croatian

nismo

"We are not."

In a sentence

Nismo bili kod kuće cijeli dan.
We were not at home the whole day.
'Nismo' is used as the negation of 'smo', indicating the negative form of the present perfect tense for 'we'.
Mi nismo obavili sve zadatke.
We did not complete all the tasks.
In this sentence, 'nismo' serves as the auxiliary verb in the negative form to create the perfect tense for the plural subject 'we'.
Nismo sigurni što slijedi.
We are not sure what comes next.
Here, 'nismo' is the negative form of the verb 'jesmo', used to indicate a state of being in the first person plural.

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