ourselves
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English
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]Morphologically our + -selves .
Pronunciation
[edit ]- (UK )
- (Received Pronunciation ) IPA (key): /aʊəˈsɛlvz/, /ɑːˈsɛlvz/
- (Northumbria ) IPA (key): /wɐˈsɛlz/, /wəˈsɛlz/
- (General American ) IPA (key): /aʊɚˈsɛlvz/, /ɑɹˈsɛlvz/
- Rhymes: -ɛlvz
Pronoun
[edit ]ourselves (first personal plural pronoun, reflexive case of we )
- (reflexive ) Us; the group including the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition when that group also is the subject.
- We should keep this for ourselves.
- Let's not beat ourselves up over this.
- (emphatic ) Intensifies the subject as the group including the speaker, especially to indicate that no one else satisfies the predicate or needs to be included.
- We did it ourselves.
- (colloquial ) Referring to everyone being addressed.
- Come on everyone! Let's get ourselves up and out of bed, please. (reflexive)
- Now then children, I'm not going to help you with the next problem. We should be able to work this one out ourselves. (emphatic)
- (colloquial , may seem patronising) Referring to an individual person being addressed, especially a person in the speaker's care; also ourself .
- Coordinate term: nurse's we
- Hello Mrs Miggins. Did we manage to wash ourselves this morning? (reflexive)
- Well done Timmy! Did we make that model ourselves? (emphatic)
Synonyms
[edit ]Coordinate terms
[edit ]- ourself (for the singular "we")
Derived terms
[edit ]Translations
[edit ]reflexive: us
- Arabic: أَنْفُسَنَا (ʔanfusanā)
- Belarusian: сябе́ (sjabjé) (accusative, genitive), сабе́ (sabjé) (dative, locative), сабо́й (sabój) (instrumental); -цца (-cca) (verb ending)
- Catalan: ens (ca)
- Chinese:
- Esperanto: ni (eo) , nin (eo)
- Finnish: itsemme (fi)
- Hungarian: magunk (hu) , magunkat (accusative)
- Ido: ni ipsa
- Irish: sinn féin
- Italian: ci (it) (clitic), noi stessi m pl, noi stesse f pl
- Khakas: позыбыс (pozıbıs)
- Latin: nōsmet
- Nahuatl: tehhuān
- Portuguese: nos (pt) , nós (pt)
- Romani: amen
- Romanian: noi înșine m, noi însene f
- Russian: себя́ (ru) (sebjá)
- Sami:
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: se
- Spanish: nos (es) , nosotros (es)
- Sranan Tongo: wisrefi
- Swedish: oss själva
- Tuvan: бодувус (boduvus)
- Ukrainian: себе́ (sebé), собі́ (uk) (sobí)
- Welsh: ein hun , ein hunan (South Wales)
- Yakut: бэйэбит (beyebit)
emphatic: we
- American Sign Language: A@IpsiChest-RadialBack A@ContraChest-RadialBack
- Arabic: أَنْفُسَنَا (ʔanfusanā)
- Belarusian: мы са́мі (my sámi)
- Catalan: mateixos (ca)
- Chinese:
- Esperanto: ni mem
- Finnish: itse (fi)
- Irish: sinn féin
- Latvian: mēs paši m pl, mēs pašas f pl
- Nahuatl: tehhuāntin
- Portuguese: nós mesmos
- Russian: са́ми (ru) (sámi)
- Sami:
- Northern Sami: ieža
- Slovak: my sami , my same
- Spanish: nosotros mismos
- Swedish: (vi (sv) ) själva (sv)
- Ukrainian: ми сами́ (my samý), ми самі́ (my samí)
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Translations to be checked
- Dutch: (please verify) onszelf (nl)
- French: (please verify) nous-mêmes (fr)
- German: (please verify) wir selbst
- Italian: (please verify) noi stessi
- Japanese: (please verify) 我々自身 (われわれじしん, wareware jishin)
- Korean: (please verify) 우리 자신 (uri jasin)
See also
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Dialectal and obsolete or archaic forms are in italics. 1 See Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for attested neopronouns. |
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