oneself

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English

Etymology

A contracted form of one's self.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wʌnˈsɛlf/

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Pronoun

oneself (reflexive form of the indefinite personal pronoun one, formerly sometimes two words: one's self)

1. A person's self: general form of himself, herself or yourself.

   Teaching oneself to swim can be dangerous.

Usage notes

This pronoun can be used for emphasis or to make a verb reflexive.

Synonyms

• one's self

Derived terms

• be oneself
• by oneself

See also

English personal pronouns

			personal pronoun			possessive pronoun	possessive determiner
			subjective	objective	reflexive
first person	singular		I	me	myself	mine	my mine (before vowels, archaic)
	plural		we	us	ourselves ourself	ours	our
second person	singular	standard	you	you	yourself	yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects)	your
		archaic, informal	thou	thee	thyself theeself	thine	thy thine (before vowels)
	plural	standard	you you all ye (archaic)	you you all	yourselves	yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects)	your
		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	they	them	themself, themselves	theirs	their
		genderless, nonspecific (formal)	one	one	oneself	–	one's
	plural		they	them	themselves	theirs theirn (obsolete outside dialects)	their

Translations

Translations

• Arabic: نَفْس‎ (ar) (nafs)
• Catalan: es (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自己 (zh) (zìjǐ), 自身 (zh) (zìshēn)

• Dutch: zichzelf (nl)
• Esperanto: mem (eo)
• Finnish: itsensä (fi)
• French: soi-même (fr)
• Galician: un mesmo
• German: selbst (de), sich (de)
• Hindi: स्वयं (hi) (svayaṁ), ख़ुद (xud)
• Hungarian: maga (hu), önmaga (hu), sajátmaga
• Japanese: 自分 (ja) (じぶん, jibun), 自分自身 (ja) (じぶんじしん, jibun jishin), 自身 (ja) (じしん, jishin), 自己 (ja) (じこ, jiko)
• Korean: 자신 (ko) (jasin) (自身 (ko)), 자기 (ko) (jagi) (自己 (ko))

• Mauritian Creole: limem
• Persian: خود‎ (fa) (xud, xod), نفس‎ (fa) (nafs)
• Polish: siebie (pl), sobie (pl)
• Portuguese: se (pt), si (pt) (prepositional)
• Russian: (nominative) сам (ru) (sam), (genitive, accusative) себя́ (ru) (sebjá), (dative, prepositional) себе́ (ru) (sebé), (etc.)
• Sanskrit: स्वयम् (sa) (svayam)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: se

• Spanish: sí mismo, uno mismo (es)
• Swedish: sig själv, sig (sv)
• Telugu: తాను (te) (tānu)
• Turkish: kendi başına (tr), kendi kendine (tr), öz başına (tr)
• Urdu: خود‎ (xud)
• Vietnamese: mình (vi)

See also

• one
• self