yourselves

English

Alternative forms

• yerselves
• yoselves

Etymology

Morphologically your +‎ -selves.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, strong) IPA^(key): /jɔːˈsɛlvz/, /jʊəˈsɛlvz/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (Received Pronunciation, weak) IPA^(key): /jəˈsɛlvz/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American, strong) IPA^(key): /jɔɹˈsɛlvz/, /jʊɹˈsɛlvz/
• (General American, weak) IPA^(key): /jɚˈsɛlvz/
• Hyphenation: your‧selves
• Rhymes: -ɛlvz

Pronoun

yourselves (second person, plural of yourself, plural reflexive of you)

1. (reflexive pronoun) Inflection of you (plural) used as the object of a verb or non-locative preposition in a clause whose subject is the same (the people addressed).

   You shouldn't blame yourselves.

   Talk amongst yourselves.

2. (emphatic) You (plural), used to intensify the subject as the group addressed.

   You yourselves won’t eat at that restaurant. Why are you recommending it to us?

Derived terms

• make yourselves at home

Translations

you (referring to the people being spoken to, previously mentioned)

• Arabic: أَنْفُسُكُم (ʔanfusukum)
• Belarusian: сябе́ (sjabjé) (accusative, genitive), сабе́ (sabjé) (dative, locative), сабо́й (sabój) (instrumental); -цца (-cca) (verb ending)
• Catalan: us (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 你們自己 / 你们自己

• Esperanto: vi (eo), vin (eo)
• Finnish: itsenne (fi)
• French: (reflexive) vous (fr)
• German: Sie selbst, sich (de), (informal plural, reflexive of "ihr") euch (de)
• Japanese: ご自分, 御自分 (ごじぶん, go-jibun)
• Khakas: позыңар (pozıñar)
• Korean: 당신 자신 (dangsin jasin)
• Navajo: tʼáá nihí
• Northern Sami: iežade du, iežadet pl
• Portuguese: vós/vocês mesmos m, vós/vocês mesmas f
• Romani: tumen
• Romanian: înșivă m pl, însevă f pl
• Russian: себя́ (ru) (sebjá), вы са́ми (vy sámi)
• Scottish Gaelic: thu fèin
• Serbo-Croatian: sebe (sh)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: se

• Spanish: se (es), ustedes mismos (es)
• Tuvan: бодуңар (boduñar), боттарыңар (bottarıñar)
• Welsh: eich hun, eich hunan (South Wales), eich hunain (South Wales)
• Yakut: бэйэҕит (beyeğit)

intensifier

• Belarusian: вы са́мі (vy sámi)
• Catalan: mateixos (ca)
• Finnish: itse (fi)
• French: vous-mêmes (fr)
• German: Sie selbst, (informal plural) ihr selbst
• Latvian: jūs paši m pl, jūs pašas f pl
• Northern Sami: ieža
• Portuguese: vós/vocês mesmos m, vós/vocês mesmas f
• Romanian: voi înșivă m pl, voi însevă f pl
• Russian: вы са́ми (vy sámi)
• Slovak: vy sami, vy same
• Spanish: sí mismos, (informal) vosotros mismos, (formal) ustedes mismos
• Ukrainian: ви сами́ (vy samý), ви самі́ (vy samí)

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.