ourselves

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[edit] English

Most common English words: offer « promise « obliged « #911: ourselves » pale » happiness » religion

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Pronoun

ourselves second personal plural pronoun (reflexive case of we)

  1. (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.
  2. (emphatic) we; intensifies the subject as the group including the speaker, especially to indicate that no one else satisfies the predicate.
    We did it ourselves.

[edit] See also

the English reflexive pronouns
singular plural
1st myself ourselves
2nd yourself, thyself yourselves, thyselves
3rd himself/herself/itself/oneself themselves

[edit] Translations

(reflexive) us
(emphatic) we
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