by oneself

English

Prepositional phrase

by oneself

1. Alone; without assistance or help from others.

   I have always wondered why shoe salesmen think I can't tie my shoes by myself.

   You ate the whole thing by yourself?

2. Alone, without another's immediate company.

   She sat by herself in the corner, waiting quietly.

3. (rare) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see by,‎ oneself.

   He kept the gun by himself at all times.

Synonyms

• (alone): on one's own

Translations

without help

• Arabic: لوحد, لحال
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自己 (zh) (zìjǐ)

• Chuukese: pwisin
• Dutch: zelfstandig (nl)
• Esperanto: sole (eo), per si mem
• Faroese: sjálvur
• Finnish: itse (fi), yksin (fi), itsekseen (fi)
• French: tout seul (fr)
• Galician: de seu
• German: selbst (de), selbstständig (de)
• Hindi: अकेले (hi) (akele), अपने आप (apne āp)
• Hungarian: magától (hu), egyedül (hu), önállóan (hu)
• Icelandic: sjálfur (is) m
• Irish: i d'aonar
• Italian: da solo, da soli pl or m, per conto mio
• Japanese: 自分で (ja) (じぶんで, jibun de)
• Jeju: 제냥으로 (jenyang-euro)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 스스로 (ko) (seuseuro)
• Malayalam: ഒറ്റയ്ക്ക് (ml) (oṟṟaykkŭ), സ്വയം (ml) (svayaṁ)
• Middle Korean: 스싀〮로〮 (sùsúy-lwó)
• Old Korean: 自衣以 (*SUSuy-lwo)
• Polish: sam (pl), sam z siebie, samo- (pl) (prefix)
• Portuguese: sozinho (pt) m
• Romanian: de la sine, cu de la sine putere, de unul singur
• Russian: самостоя́тельно (ru) (samostojátelʹno), сам (ru) (sam) (adjective, with genders and numbers)
• Spanish: solo (es), por sí mismo
• Swedish: själv (sv) c, på egen hand (sv)
• Thai: ด้วยตัวเอง, เอง (th) (eeng)
• Urdu: اپنے آپ (ur) (apnē āp), خود بخود (xud baxud), اکیلے (akēlē)
• Vietnamese: lấy (vi)

without company

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 一個人／一个人 (jat¹ go³ jan⁴; jat¹ go³ jan^4-2; jat¹ go³ jan^4-1)

  Mandarin: 一個人／一个人 (zh) (yīgèrén)

• Dutch: alleen (nl)
• Esperanto: sole (eo), sola (eo)
• Faroese: einsamallur
• Finnish: yksin (fi), yksinään (fi), itsekseen (fi), yksikseen (fi)
• French: solo (fr), seul (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: alleine (de)
• Greek: μόνος (el) (mónos)
• Hebrew: בְּגַפּוֹ (he) m (begapó)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: egyedül (hu), magában (hu), egymagában
• Icelandic: aleinn (is) m, einn (is) m
• Irish: leat féin
• Japanese: 一人で (ja) (ひとりで, hitori de)
• Korean: 혼자 (ko) (honja)
• Malayalam: ഒറ്റയ്ക്ക് (ml) (oṟṟaykkŭ)
• Polish: sam (pl)
• Portuguese: sozinho (pt), só (pt), por si só
• Romanian: singur (ro), de unul singur
• Russian: оди́н (ru) (odín) (adjective, with genders and numbers), в одино́чку (ru) (v odinóčku)
• Spanish: solo (es), a solas
• Swedish: ensam (sv), för sig själv (sv)
• Thai: ตามลำพัง, ลำพัง (th) (lam-pang), ตัวคนเดียว
• Turkish: tek başına (tr)
• Vietnamese: một mình (vi)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} tout seul (fr), ^{(please verify)} par soi-même
• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} בְּעֶצֶם־… (b'étzem-...)
• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} einn (is), ^{(please verify)} aleinn (is), ^{(please verify)} út af fyrir sig
• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} 一人で (ひとりで, hitori de)
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} sponte