No. 552 in Serbian
нико
"Нико" means "no one" or "nobody" in English.
In a sentence
Нико није дошао вечерас.
No one came this evening.
Here, 'нико' is used as a pronoun in the nominative case meaning 'no one', indicating the absence of any individual participating in the action.
Нисам видео никога у парку.
I didn't see anyone in the park.
In this sentence, 'никога' is the genitive form of 'нико', used after a negation to indicate absence of anyone the speaker could have seen.
Нико се није жалио на услове.
No one complained about the conditions.
'Нико' is again a pronoun in the nominative case functioning as the subject of the sentence and is used to state that there's no person who expressed complaints.
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