oneself

English [edit]

A contracted form of one 's self

oneself (reflexive form of the indefinite pronoun one, sometimes two words: one's self)

The person, previously mentioned.

One can teach oneself to do this.
A person's self - a general form of himself, herself or yourself

Teaching oneself to swim can be dangerous.

This pronoun can be used for emphasis or to make a verb reflexive.

English personal pronouns

Number	Person	Gender	Subject	Objective	Reflexive	Possessive adjective	Possessive pronoun
Singular	First	—	I	me	myself	my	mine
	Second	—	you, thou (archaic)	you, thee (archaic)	yourself, thyself (archaic) theeself (archaic)	your, thy (archaic)	yours, thine (archaic)
	Third	Masculine	he	him	himself	his
		Feminine	she	her	herself	her	hers
		Neuter	it		itself	its	its (rare)
		Gender-neutral	they	them	themself	their	theirs
Plural	First	—	we	us	ourselves	our	ours
	Second	—	you, ye (archaic)	you	yourselves	your	yours
	Third	—	they	them	themselves	their	theirs
Indefinite	Third	—	one		oneself	one's	—

The person, previously mentioned

Arabic: نفس (ar) (nafs)
Catalan: es (ca)
Chinese:

Mandarin: 自己 (cmn) (zìjǐ), 自身 (cmn) (zìshēn)
Dutch: zichzelf (nl)
Esperanto: mem (eo)
Finnish: itsensä (fi)
French: soi-même (fr)
German: selbst (de), sich (de)
Hindi: स्वयं (hi) (svayaṁ), ख़ुद (hi) (xud)
Hungarian: maga (hu), önmaga (hu), sajátmaga (hu)
Japanese: 自分 (ja) (じぶん, jibun), 自分自身 (ja) (じぶんじしん, jibun jishin), 自身 (ja) (じしん, jishin), 自己 (ja) (じこ, jiko)

Korean: 자신 (ko) (jasin) (自身 (ko)), 자기 (ko) (jagi) (自己 (ko))
Mauritian Creole: limem
Persian: خود (fa) (xud, xod), نفس (fa) (nafs)
Portuguese: si, si mesmo
Russian: (nominative) сам (ru) (sam) , (genitive, accusative) себя (ru) (sebjá) , (dative, prepositional) себе (ru) (sebé) , (etc.)
Sanskrit: स्वयम् (sa) (svayam)
Spanish: sí mismo, uno mismo (es)
Swedish: sig själv (sv)
Turkish: kendi başına (tr), kendi kendine (tr), öz başına (tr)
Urdu: خود (ur) (xud)