yourself

See also: Yourself

English

Alternative forms

• yerself
• yo'self
• yoself
• Yourself (honorific)

Etymology

From Middle English yourself, equivalent to your +‎ -self.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, strong) IPA^(key): /jɔːˈsɛlf/, /jʊəˈsɛlf/
• (Received Pronunciation, weak) IPA^(key): /jəˈsɛlf/

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• (General American, strong) IPA^(key): /jɔɹˈsɛlf/, /jʊɹˈsɛlf/
• (General American, weak) IPA^(key): /jɚˈsɛlf/

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• Hyphenation: your‧self
• Rhymes: -ɛlf

Pronoun

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

1. (reflexive pronoun) 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.

   1. (formal, proscribed) You (singular); in other contexts, a hypercorrection perceived as being more polite in formal and professional conversation..

      I spoke with yourself last in February.

Derived terms

• because you touch yourself at night
• buy yourself a hat
• check yourself before you wreck yourself
• dig yourself
• do it yourself
• do-it-yourself
• don't keep a dog and bark yourself
• don't knock yourself out
• go chase yourself
• go screw yourself
• go shit yourself
• hello yourself, and see how you like it
• keep telling yourself that
• make yourself at home
• please yourself
• stab yourself and pass the dagger
• take care of

 

Translations

(reflexive) your own self

• Arabic: نفسكَ m (nafsuka), نفسكِ f (nafsuki)

  Egyptian Arabic: نفسَك m (nafsak), نفسِك f (nafsek)

• 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 (hu), 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)
• Khakas: позың (pozıñ)
• Latin: tutemet, tute, vosmet pl
• Navajo: tʼáá nihí
• Northern Sami: iežat
• Persian: خودت (fa) (xodat)
• Polish: się (pl), siebie (pl)
• Portuguese: te (pt), se (pt)
• Romani: tut
• 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)
• Sranan Tongo: yusrefi
• Turkish: kendin (tr)
• Tuvan: бодуң (boduñ)
• Yakut: бэйэҥ (beyeñ)

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)
• Esperanto: vi mem
• 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
• Northern Sami: ieš
• 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)

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Translations to be checked

• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} نَفْسُك (nafsuk)
• Crimean Tatar: ^{(please verify)} özüñ
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} jezelf (nl), ^{(please verify)} uzelf (nl)
• French: ^{(please verify)} toi-même (fr), ^{(please verify)} vous-même (fr)
• 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 (ru) (sebjá)

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' your guys' (proscribed)	y'all's your all's (nonstandard) you guys' your guys' (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

Middle English

Alternative forms

• youreself, yourselff

Etymology

your +‎ self

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuːrsɛlf/

Pronoun

yourself

1. Emphatic plural 2nd person pron.

Descendants

• English: yourself
• Yola: yerzel

References

• “yǒur-self, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.