yourself

See also: Yourself

English

Alternative forms

• yerself
• yo'self
• yoself

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /jɔːˈself/
• (US) IPA^(key): /jɚˈsɛlf/, /jʊɹˈsɛlf/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɛlf

Pronoun

yourself ‎(referring to the person being spoken to, previously mentioned, the reflexive case of you)

1. (reflexive) Your own self (singular).

   Be careful with that fire or you'll burn yourself.

2. You (singular); used emphatically, especially to indicate exclusiveness of the referent's participation in the predicate, i.e., that no one else is involved.

   You yourself know that what you wrote was wrong.

   After a good night's sleep you'll feel like yourself again.

Translations

(reflexive) your own self

• Belarusian: сябе́ ‎(sjabjé) (accusative, genitive), сабе́ ‎(sabjé) (dative, locative), сабо́й ‎(sabój) (instrumental), -цца ‎(-cca) (verb ending)
• Catalan: et (ca)
• Czech: se (cs), sebe (cs)
• Dutch: jijzelf (nl) (informal), uzelf (nl) (formal)
• Esperanto: vi (eo), vin (eo)
• Finnish: (informal) itsesi (fi), (formal) itsenne (fi)
• French: te (fr), vous (fr)
• German: dich (de) (informal), dich selbst (informal), sich (de) (formal), sich selbst (formal)
• Hungarian: magad, magadat
• Ido: tu ipsa, vu ipsa
• Italian: te stesso m sg, te stessa f sg, voi stessi m pl, voi stesse f pl
• Japanese: 自身 (ja) ‎(jishin)

• Latin: tutemet, tute, vosmet pl
• Navajo: tʼáá nihí
• Novial: vu
• Polish: się (pl), siebie (pl)
• Portuguese: te (pt), se (pt)
• Russian: себя́ (ru) ‎(sebjá), -ся (ru) ‎(-sja)
• Scots: yersel
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: se

• Spanish: te (es), ti (es), se (es), ti mismo (tuteo, male), ti misma (tuteo, female), vos mismo (voseo, male), vos misma (voseo, female), usted mismo (formal, male), usted misma (formal, female)

you, used emphatically

• American Sign Language: A@Chesthigh SmallFrontandback
• Belarusian: ты сам m ‎(ty sam), ты сама́ f ‎(ty samá), (plural or formal) вы са́мі ‎(vy sámi)
• Catalan: mateix (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自己 (zh) ‎(zìjǐ)

• Czech: sám (cs), samotný (cs)
• Finnish: (informal) sinä itse, (formal) te itse
• French: toi-même (fr), vous-même (fr)
• Japanese: 自分 (ja) ‎(じぶん, jibun)

• Latin: tute
• Latvian: tu pats m, tu pati f, (singular formal) jūs pats m, jūs pati f, (plural informal or formal) jūs paši m pl, jūs pašas f pl
• Polish: sam (pl) m pers, sama (pl) f
• Portuguese: você/tu mesmo m
• Russian: ты са́м m ‎(ty sám), ты сама́ f ‎(ty samá), (plural or formal) вы са́ми ‎(vy sámi)
• Slovak: ty sám m, ty sama f, vy sami, vy same
• Spanish: tú mismo
• Ukrainian: ти сам m ‎(ty sam), ти сама́ f ‎(ty samá), (plural or formal) ви сами́ ‎(vy samý), ви самі́ ‎(vy samí)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} نَفْسُك ‎(nafsuk)
• Crimean Tatar: ^{(please verify)} özüñ
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} jezelf, ^{(please verify)} uzelf
• Finnish: oma itsesi
• French: ^{(please verify)} toi-même, ^{(please verify)} vous-même
• German: ^{(please verify)} du selbst, ^{(please verify)} Sie selbst

• Hungarian: önmaga (hu), saját maga
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} te, ^{(please verify)} tu ipse
• Italian: te stesso m sg, te stessa f sg, voi stessi m pl, voi stesse f pl
• Japanese: 本来の自分 ‎(honrai no jibun)
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 당신 자신 ‎(dangsin jasin)
• Latin: tute, vosmet pl
• Russian: ^{(please verify)} себя́ ‎(sebjá)

See also

English personal pronouns

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