yourself

See also: Yourself

English

Alternative forms

• yerself
• yo'self
• yoself
• Yourself (honorific)

Etymology

From Middle English yourself, equivalent to your +‎ -self.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, strong) IPA^(key): /jɔːˈsɛlf/, /jʊəˈsɛlf/
• (Received Pronunciation, weak) IPA^(key): /jəˈsɛlf/

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• (General American, strong) IPA^(key): /jɔɹˈsɛlf/, /jʊɹˈsɛlf/
• (General American, weak) IPA^(key): /jɚˈsɛlf/

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• Hyphenation: your‧self
• Rhymes: -ɛlf

Pronoun

yourself (referring to the person being spoken to, previously mentioned, the reflexive case of you)

1. (reflexive pronoun) Your own self (singular).

   Be careful with that fire or you'll burn yourself.

2. 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.

   1. (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

• because you touch yourself at night
• buy yourself a hat
• check yourself before you wreck yourself
• dig yourself
• do-it-yourself
• do it yourself
• don't keep a dog and bark yourself
• don't knock yourself out
• fuck yourself
• go chase yourself
• go screw yourself
• go shit yourself
• hello yourself, and see how you like it
• keep telling yourself that
• keep yourself safe
• make yourself at home
• please yourself
• stab yourself and pass the dagger
• take care of

Translations

(reflexive) your own self

• Arabic: نفسكَ m (nafsuka), نفسكِ f (nafsuki)

  Egyptian Arabic: نفسَك m (nafsak), نفسِك f (nafsek)

• Belarusian: сябе́ (sjabjé) (accusative, genitive), сабе́ (sabjé) (dative, locative), сабо́й (sabój) (instrumental), -цца (-cca) (verb ending)
• Catalan: et (ca)
• Czech: se (cs), sebe (cs)
• Dutch: jijzelf (nl) (informal), uzelf (nl) (formal)
• Esperanto: vi (eo), vin (eo)
• Finnish: (informal) itsesi (fi), (formal) itsenne (fi)
• French: te (fr), vous (fr)
• German: dich (de) (informal), dich selbst (informal), sich (de) (formal), sich selbst (formal)
• Hungarian: magad (hu), magadat
• Ido: tu ipsa, vu ipsa
• Italian: te stesso m sg, te stessa f sg, voi stessi m pl, voi stesse f pl
• Japanese: 自身 (ja) (jishin)
• Khakas: позың (pozıñ)
• Latin: tutemet, tute, vosmet pl
• Navajo: tʼáá nihí
• Northern Sami: iežat
• Persian: خودت (fa) (xodat)
• Polish: się (pl), siebie (pl)
• Portuguese: te (pt), se (pt)
• Romani: tut
• Russian: себя́ (ru) (sebjá), -ся (ru) (-sja)
• Scots: yersel
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: se

• Spanish: te (es), ti (es), se (es), ti mismo (tuteo, male), ti misma (tuteo, female), vos mismo (voseo, male), vos misma (voseo, female), usted mismo (formal, male), usted misma (formal, female)
• Sranan Tongo: yusrefi
• Turkish: kendin (tr)
• Tuvan: бодуң (boduñ)
• Welsh: dy hun (familiar), eich hun (polite), dy hunan (familiar, South Wales), eich hunan (polite, South Wales)
• Yakut: бэйэҥ (beyeñ)

you, used emphatically

• American Sign Language: A@Chesthigh SmallFrontandback
• Belarusian: ты сам m (ty sam), ты сама́ f (ty samá), (plural or formal) вы са́мі (vy sámi)
• Catalan: mateix (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自己 (zh) (zìjǐ)

• Czech: sám (cs), samotný (cs)
• Esperanto: vi mem
• Finnish: (informal) sinä itse, (formal) te itse
• French: toi-même (fr), vous-même (fr)
• Japanese: 自分 (ja) (じぶん, jibun)
• Latin: tute
• Latvian: tu pats m, tu pati f, (singular formal) jūs pats m, jūs pati f, (plural informal or formal) jūs paši m pl, jūs pašas f pl
• Northern Sami: ieš
• Polish: sam (pl) m pers, sama (pl) f
• Portuguese: você/tu mesmo m
• Russian: ты са́м m (ty sám), ты сама́ f (ty samá), (plural or formal) вы са́ми (vy sámi)
• Slovak: ty sám m, ty sama f, vy sami, vy same
• Spanish: tú mismo
• Ukrainian: ти сам m (ty sam), ти сама́ f (ty samá), (plural or formal) ви сами́ (vy samý), ви самі́ (vy samí)

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Translations to be checked

• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} نَفْسُك (nafsuk)
• Crimean Tatar: ^{(please verify)} özüñ
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} jezelf (nl), ^{(please verify)} uzelf (nl)
• French: ^{(please verify)} toi-même (fr), ^{(please verify)} vous-même (fr)
• German: ^{(please verify)} du selbst, ^{(please verify)} Sie selbst
• Hungarian: önmaga (hu), saját maga
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} te, ^{(please verify)} tu ipse
• Italian: te stesso m sg, te stessa f sg, voi stessi m pl, voi stesse f pl
• Japanese: 本来の自分 (honrai no jibun)
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 당신 자신 (dangsin jasin)
• Latin: tute, vosmet pl
• Russian: ^{(please verify)} себя́ (ru) (sebjá)

See also

English personal pronouns

Dialectal and obsolete or archaic forms are in italics. personal pronoun possessive pronoun possessive determiner subjective objective reflexive first person singular I me (colloquial) me myself me mysen mine my mine (before vowels, archaic) me plural we us ourselves ourself oursen ours our second person singular standard (historically formal) you you yourself yoursen yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects) your archaic (historically informal) thou thee thyself theeself thysen thine thy thine (before vowels) plural standard you ye (archaic) you yourselves yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects) your colloquial you all y'all you guys you all y'all you guys y'allselves y'all's you guys' your guys' (proscribed) y'all's your all's (nonstandard) you guys' your guys' (proscribed) informal / dialectal (see list of dialectal forms at you and inflected forms in those entries) third person singular masculine he him himself hisself (archaic) hissen his hisn (obsolete outside dialects) his feminine she her herself hersen hers hern (obsolete outside dialects) her neuter it hit it hit itself hitself its his (archaic) its his (archaic) hits genderless1 they them themself, themselves theirs their nonspecific (formal) one one oneself – one's plural they them hem, 'em themselves theirsen theirs theirn (obsolete outside dialects) their 1 See Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for attested neopronouns.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• youreself, yourselff

Etymology

your +‎ self

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuːrsɛlf/

Pronoun

yourself

1. Emphatic plural 2nd person pron.

Descendants

• English: yourself
• Yola: yerzel

References

• “yǒur-self, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.