yourself
See also: Yourself
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English yourself, equivalent to your + -self.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation, strong) IPA(key): /jɔːˈsɛlf/, /jʊəˈsɛlf/
- (Received Pronunciation, weak) IPA(key): /jəˈsɛlf/
Audio (London, UK): (file)
- (General American, strong) IPA(key): /jɔɹˈsɛlf/, /jʊɹˈsɛlf/
- (General American, weak) IPA(key): /jɚˈsɛlf/
Audio (US): (file)
- Hyphenation: your‧self
- Rhymes: -ɛlf
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.
- (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 edit
- because you touch yourself at night
- buy yourself a hat
- check yourself before you wreck 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 edit
(reflexive) your own self
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you, used emphatically
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See also edit
English personal pronouns
Dialectal and obsolete or archaic forms are in italics.
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
yourself
Descendants edit
References edit
- “yǒur-self, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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