herself

See also: Herself

English

Alternative forms

• Herself (honorific)

Etymology

From Middle English. Equivalent to her +‎ -self.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /hɜːˈsɛlf/, /əsɛlf/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /hɝˈsɛlf/, /ɚsɛlf/

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• Rhymes: -ɛlf
• Hyphenation: her‧self

Pronoun

herself (the third person singular, feminine, personal pronoun, the reflexive form of she, masculine himself, neuter itself, gender-neutral singular themself or themselves, plural themselves)

1. (reflexive) Her; the female object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject.

   She injured herself.

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.

2. (emphatic) She; an intensive repetition of the female subject, often used to indicate the exclusiveness of that person as the only satisfier of the predicate.

   She was injured herself.

3. (Ireland) The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; she (used of upper-class ladies, or sarcastically, of women who imagine themselves to be more important than others)

   What's herself up to this time?

   Have you seen herself yet this morning?

Derived terms

• every woman for herself

Translations

(reflexive object) her

• Belarusian: сябе́ (sjabjé) (accusative, genitive), сабе́ (sabjé) (dative, locative), сабо́й (sabój) (instrumental); -цца (-cca) (verb ending)
• Catalan: es (ca)
• Esperanto: sin (eo)
• Finnish: itsensä (fi)
• French: elle-même (fr) f
• German: sich (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἑαυτήν (heautḗn), ἑαυτῇ (heautêi), ἑαυτῆς (heautês)

• Hungarian: magát (hu)
• Khakas: позы (pozı)
• Latin: sē (la), sēsē, sibi, suī (la)
• Mauritian Creole: limem
• Navajo: tʼáá bí, tʼáá hó
• Northern Sami: iežas
• Portuguese: a si (própria/mesma), se (pt)
• Romani: pes

  Kalo Finnish Romani: pes

• Romanian: se (ro)
• Russian: себя́ (ru) (sebjá)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: себе

  Roman: sebe (sh)

• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: se

• Spanish: se (es), ella misma, sí misma
• Tuvan: боду (bodu)
• Volapük: oki
• Yakut: бэйэтэ (beyete)
• Yiddish: זיך‎ (zikh)

(as intensifier) she

• American Sign Language: A@Chesthigh SmallFrontandback
• Arabic: نَفْسُهَا‎ (nafsuhā)
• Belarusian: яна́ сама́ f (janá samá)
• Catalan: mateixa (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 她自己 (tā zìjǐ)

• Czech: jí (cs)
• Dutch: zijzelf (nl)
• Finnish: hän ... itse
• French: elle-même (fr)
• German: sie selbst
• Greek:

  Ancient: αὐτή (autḗ)

• Hungarian: maga (hu)
• Italian: lei stessa
• Japanese: 彼女自身 (かのじょじゃしん, kanojo-jishin)
• Korean: 그 여자 자신 (geu yeoja jasin)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: خۆی‎ (xoy)

• Latin: ipsa (la)
• Latvian: viņa pati f
• Norman: ielle-mesme (Guernsey)
• Northern Sami: ieš
• Portuguese: ela mesma (pt)
• Romanian: ea însăși
• Russian: сама́ (ru) (samá)
• Slovak: ona sama f
• Spanish: ella misma
• Swedish: sig (sv), sig själv
• Ukrainian: вона́ сама́ f (voná samá)

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Translations to be checked

• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} ipse

See also

English personal pronouns

Dialectal and obsolete or archaic forms are in italics.

			personal pronoun			possessive pronoun	possessive determiner
			subjective	objective	reflexive
first person	singular		I me (colloquial)	me	myself me mysen	mine	my mine (before vowels, archaic) me
	plural		we	us	ourselves ourself oursen	ours	our
second person	singular	standard, formal	you	you	yourself yoursen	yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects)	your
		archaic, informal	thou	thee	thyself theeself thysen	thine	thy thine (before vowels)
	plural	standard	you ye (archaic)	you	yourselves	yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects)	your
		colloquial	you all y'all you guys	you all y'all you guys	y'allselves	y'all's you guys's your guys's (proscribed)	y'all's your all's (nonstandard) you guys's your guys's (proscribed)
		informal / dialectal	(see list of dialectal forms at you and inflected forms in those entries)
third person	singular	masculine	he	him	himself hisself (archaic) hissen	his hisn (obsolete outside dialects)	his
		feminine	she	her	herself hersen	hers hern (obsolete outside dialects)	her
		neuter	it hit	it hit	itself hitself	its his (archaic)	its his (archaic) hits
		genderless	they	them	themself, themselves	theirs	their
		genderless, nonspecific (formal)	one	one	oneself	–	one's
	plural		they	them hem, 'em	themselves theirsen	theirs theirn (obsolete outside dialects)	their

Anagrams

• Flesher, flesher