by oneself

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EnglishEdit

Prepositional phraseEdit

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 company

   He sat by himself in the corner, waiting quietly.

3. (rare) Used other than as an idiom: see by,‎ oneself.

   He kept the gun by himself at all times.

SynonymsEdit

• (alone): on one's own

TranslationsEdit

without help

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自己 (zh) (zìjǐ)

• Chuukese: pwisin
• Faroese: sjálvur
• Finnish: itse (fi), yksin (fi)
• French: tout seul (fr)
• German: selbst (de), selbstständig (de)
• Hindi: अकेले (hi) (akele), अपने आप (apne āp)
• Icelandic: sjálfur (is) m

• Irish: i d'aonar
• Italian: da solo, da soli pl, m
• Japanese: 自分で (ja) (じぶんで, jibun de)
• Polish: sam (pl), sam z siebie, samo- (pl) (prefix)
• Portuguese: sozinho (pt) m
• Russian: самостоя́тельно (ru) (samostojátelʹno), сам (ru) (sam) (adjective, with genders and numbers)
• Spanish: solo (es), por si mismo
• Swedish: själv (sv) c, på egen hand (sv)
• Vietnamese: lấy (vi)

without company

• 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 (zh), 一个人 (zh) (yī​gè​rén)

• Faroese: einsamallur
• Finnish: yksin (fi), yksinään (fi)
• French: solo (fr), seul (fr)
• German: alleine (de)
• Greek: μόνος (el) (mónos)
• Hebrew: בְּגַפּוֹ‏‎ (he) m (begapó)

• Icelandic: aleinn (is) m, einn (is) m
• Irish: leat féin
• Japanese: 一人で (ja) (ひとりで, hitori de)
• Portuguese: sozinho (pt), só (pt), por si só
• 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
• Vietnamese: một mình (vi)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} tout seul (fr)
• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} בְּעֶצֶם־…‏‎ (b'étzem-...)
• Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} egyedül (hu)

• Icelandic: einn; aleinn; út af fyrir sig
• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} 一人で (ひとりで, hitori de)
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} sponte