English Explanatory Dictionary

itself

English dictionary entry

Meanings

pron
  1. it; A thing as the object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject
  2. it; used to intensify the subject, especially to emphasize that it is the only participant in the predicate
  3. it; used to refer back to an earlier subject

Pronunciation

/ɪtˈsɛlf/ en-us-itself.ogg /ɪtˈself/ /ɪtˈsɛl/

Word forms

itself it himself herself themself themselves it self it selfe

Etymology

From Middle English hit-self, equivalent to it + -self.

Synonyms

itsself

Related words

Ime me myselfmemysen mine mymineme we us ourselvesourselfoursen oursourn our you yourselfyoursen yoursyourn your thou thee thyselftheeselfthysen thine thythine youye yourselves you ally'all you guys yous y'allselves all yours y'all's you guys' your guys' all your y'all's your all's you guys' your guys' he him himselfhisselfhissen hishisn his she her herselfhersen hershern ithit itselfhitself itshis itshishits they them themself themselves theirs their one oneself – one's themhem 'em themselvestheirsen theirstheirn The following table shows a list of English personal pronoun including archaic and dialectal forms. Dialectal and obsolete archaic forms are in italics. 1 See Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for attested neopronoun.

Derived words

a house divided against itself cannot stand being-for-itself being-in-itself dense-in-itself end in itself history repeats itself in and of itself in itself in-itselfness lend itself to of itself pay for itself repeat itself simplicity itself suggest itself the trash takes itself out thing-in-itself thing in itself unto itself write itself

Translations

Arabic: نَفْسُهُ Arabic: نَفْسُهَا Belarusian: сябе́ Belarusian: -цца Catalan: es Czech: sám Czech: se Czech: sebe Czech: sám sebe Dutch: zichzelf Esperanto: sin Finnish: itsensä French: se Galician: se German: von selbst German: von allein German: selbst German: sich selbst Ancient Greek: ἑαυτό Ancient Greek: ἑαυτῷ Ancient Greek: ἑαυτοῦ Hungarian: maga Hungarian: magát Italian: sé Khakas: позы Latin: sē Latin: sēsē Latin: sibi Latin: suī Mauritian Creole: limem Navajo: tʼáá bí Norwegian: seg Polish: się Portuguese: se Portuguese: a si mesmo Russian: -ся Russian: себя́ Russian: сам себя́ Northern Sami: iežas Lower Sorbian: se Spanish: se Spanish: solo Spanish: a si mismo Spanish: por si mismo Tuvan: боду Ukrainian: се́бе Welsh: ei hun Welsh: ei hunan Yakut: бэйэтэ
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