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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation, strong) IPA(key): /jɔːˈsɛlf/
- (Received Pronunciation, strong) IPA(key): /jəˈsɛlf/
- (General American, strong) IPA(key): /jʊɹˈsɛlf/
- (General American, weak) IPA(key): /jɚˈsɛlf/
- Hyphenation: your‧self
- Rhymes: -ɛlf
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Pronoun[edit]
yourself (referring to the person being spoken to, previously mentioned, the reflexive case of you)
- (reflexive) Your own self (singular).
- Be careful with that fire or you'll burn yourself.
- 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[edit]
(reflexive) your own self
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you, used emphatically
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See also[edit]
English personal pronouns
personal pronoun | possessive pronoun |
possessive determiner | |||||
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subjective | objective | reflexive | |||||
first person | singular | I | me | myself | mine | my mine (before vowels, archaic) | |
plural | we | us | ourselves ourself |
ours | our | ||
second person | singular | standard | you | you | yourself | yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects) |
your |
archaic, informal | thou | thee | thyself theeself |
thine | thy thine (before vowels) | ||
plural | standard | you you all ye (archaic) |
you you all |
yourselves | yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects) |
your | |
informal / dialectal | (see list of dialectal forms at you and inflected forms in those entries) | ||||||
third person | singular | masculine | he | him | himself hisself (archaic) |
his hisn (obsolete outside dialects) |
his |
feminine | she | her | herself | hers hern (obsolete outside dialects) |
her | ||
neuter | it | it | itself | its his (archaic) |
its his (archaic) | ||
genderless | they | them | themself, themselves | theirs | their | ||
genderless, nonspecific (formal) |
one | one | oneself | – | one's | ||
plural | they | them | themselves | theirs theirn (obsolete outside dialects) |
their |