ourselves
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[edit] English
Most common English words: offer « promise « obliged « #911: ourselves » pale » happiness » religion
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[edit] Pronoun
ourselves second 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.
- (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.
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[edit] Translations
(emphatic) we
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