oneself
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
A contracted form of one's self.
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
oneself (reflexive form of the indefinite personal pronoun one, formerly sometimes two words: one's self)
- A person's self: general form of himself, herself or yourself.
- Teaching oneself to swim can be dangerous.
Usage notesEdit
This pronoun can be used for emphasis or to make a verb reflexive.
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English personal pronouns
| personal pronoun | possessive pronoun |
possessive determiner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subjective | objective | reflexive | |||||
| first person | singular | I me (colloquial) |
me | myself | mine | my mine (before vowels, archaic) | |
| plural | we | us | ourselves ourself |
ours | our | ||
| second person | singular | standard, formal | you | you | yourself | yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects) |
your |
| archaic, informal | thou | thee | thyself theeself |
thine | thy thine (before vowels) | ||
| plural | standard | you ye (archaic) |
you | yourselves | yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects) |
your | |
| colloquial | you all | you all | – | – | your all's (nonstandard) | ||
| informal / dialectal | (see list of dialectal forms at you and inflected forms in those entries) | ||||||
| third person | singular | masculine | he | him | himself hisself (archaic) |
his hisn (obsolete outside dialects) |
his |
| feminine | she | her | herself | hers hern (obsolete outside dialects) |
her | ||
| neuter | it | it | itself | its his (archaic) |
its his (archaic) | ||
| genderless, nonstandard | they | them | themself, themselves | theirs | their | ||
| genderless, nonspecific (formal) |
one | one | oneself | – | one's | ||
| plural | they | them | themselves | theirs theirn (obsolete outside dialects) |
their | ||
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