English Explanatory Dictionary

ourselves

English dictionary entry

Meanings

pron
  1. Us; the group including the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition when that group also is the subject.
  2. Intensifies the subject as the group including the speaker, especially to indicate that no one else satisfies the predicate or needs to be included.
  3. Referring to everyone being addressed.
  4. Referring to an individual person being addressed, especially a person in the speaker's care; also ourself.

Pronunciation

/aʊəˈsɛlvz/ /ɑːˈsɛlvz/ /wɐˈsɛlz/ /wəˈsɛlz/ /aʊɚˈsɛlvz/ /ɑɹˈsɛlvz/ en-us-ourselves.ogg

Word forms

ourselves case of we

Etymology

Morphologically our + -selves.

Synonyms

usself weself

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

between ourselves

Translations

American Sign Language: A@IpsiChest-RadialBack A@ContraChest-RadialBack Arabic: أَنْفُسَنَا Belarusian: мы са́мі Catalan: mateixos Chinese Mandarin: 我們自己 /我们自己 Chinese Mandarin: 我们自己 Esperanto: ni mem Finnish: itse Irish: sinn féin Latvian: mēs paši Latvian: mēs pašas Nahuatl: tehhuāntin Portuguese: nós mesmos Russian: са́ми Northern Sami: ieža Slovak: my sami Slovak: my same Spanish: nosotros mismos Swedish: (vi) själva Ukrainian: ми сами́ Ukrainian: ми самі́
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