yourselves

English

Alternative forms

• yerselves
• yoselves

Pronunciation

• (General American, strong) IPA^(key): /jʊɹˈsɛlvz/
• (General American, weak) IPA^(key): /jɚˈsɛlvz/
• (Received Pronunciation, strong) IPA^(key): /jɔːˈsɛlvz/
• (Received Pronunciation, weak) IPA^(key): /jəˈsɛlvz/
• Hyphenation: your‧selves

Pronoun

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

1. You (plural), used as the object of a verb or preposition, referring to the people being spoken to, previously mentioned.

   You shouldn't blame yourselves.

Translations

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

• Arabic: أَنْفُسُكُم‎ (ʾanfusukum)
• 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

• 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
• Novial: vus
• Portuguese: vós/vocês mesmos m, vós/vocês mesmas f
• Romanian: înșivă m pl, însevă f pl
• Russian: себя́ (ru) (sebjá), вы са́ми (vy sámi)
• Serbo-Croatian: sebe (sh)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: se

• Spanish: se (es), ustedes mismos (es)
• Tuvan: бодуңар (boduŋar), боттарыңар (bottarıŋar)
• Yakut: бэйэҕит (beyeğit)

intensifier

• Belarusian: вы са́мі (vy sámi)
• Catalan: mateixos (ca)
• French: vous-mêmes (fr)
• German: Sie selbst, (informal plural) ihr selbst
• Latvian: jūs paši m pl, jūs pašas f pl
• 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

			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