himself

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /hɪmˈsɛlf/, X-SAMPA: /hIm"sElf/

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• Rhymes: -ɛlf
• Hyphenation: him‧self

Pronoun

himself the third person singular, masculine, personal pronoun (reflexive form of he, Feminine herself, neuter (nonhuman) itself, neuter (human) himself, plural themselves)

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

   He injured himself.

2. (emphatic) he; used as an intensifier, often to emphasize that the referent is the exclusive participant in the predicate

   He was injured himself.

3. (now archaic or nonstandard) The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; "he himself".
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.7:

     Yet it is that himselfe had been liberally gratified by his Unkle with militarie rewards, before ever he went to warres.

   • 1998, Kirk Jones, Waking Ned, Tomboy films

     Dennis: His glass is there and himself is in the toilet.

Synonyms

• his nibs
• hisself

See also

English personal pronouns

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

Translations

(reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object

• Catalan: es (ca)
• Dutch: zich (nl), zichzelf (nl)
• Egyptian: ḏzf:
• Finnish: itsensä (fi)
• French: lui-même (fr)
• Latin: ipse (la)
• Mauritian Creole: limem
• Russian: сам (ru) (sam) m, себя (ru) (sebjá) (genitive case, accusative case), себе (ru) (sebé) (dative case, prepositional case), собой (ru) (sobój) (instrumental case)

• Scots: himsel
• Scottish Gaelic: e (gd) (non-emphatic), esan (gd) (emphatic)
• Spanish: él mismo (es), sí mismo (es)
• Talysh:

  Asalemi: (for all persons) اشتن (əštan)

• Volapük: oki (vo)

(emphatic, exclusive) he

• American Sign Language: A@Chesthigh SmallFrontandback
• Arabic: نفسه (ar) (nafsáhu) m
• Catalan: mateix (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 他自己 (cmn) (tā zìjǐ)

• Dutch: zelf (nl), hijzelf (nl)
• Finnish: itse (fi)
• French: lui-même (fr)

• German: er selbst (de)
• Guernésiais: li-mesme
• Japanese: 彼自身 (ja) (かれじしん, kare-jishin) m
• Latin: ipse (la)
• Russian: он сам (ru) (on sam) m
• Scots: himsel
• Scottish Gaelic: esan (gd)
• Spanish: él mismo (es)

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• Czech: sám (cs) m
• Hungarian: maga (hu)
• Interlingua: ipse
• Italian: lui stesso

• Korean: 그 남자 자진 (geu namja jasin)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: خۆی (ku) (xoi)

• Portuguese: ele mesmo
• Swedish: sig själv (sv) (1, injured himself), själv (sv) (1, was injured), honom själv (sv), han själv (sv) (2)

External links

• himself in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• himself in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: being · day · through · #116: himself · go · how · long

Anagrams

• flemish, Flemish