ourselves

English

Etymology

Morphologically our +‎ -selves.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /aʊəˈsɛlvz/, /ɑːˈsɛlvz/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /aʊɚˈsɛlvz/, /ɑɹˈsɛlvz/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɛlvz

Pronoun

ourselves (first personal plural pronoun, reflexive case of we)

1. (reflexive) Us; the group including the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition when that group also is the subject.

   We should keep this for ourselves.

2. (emphatic) We; intensifies the subject as the group including the speaker, especially to indicate that no one else satisfies the predicate.

   We did it ourselves.

Synonyms

• usself (obsolete or dialectal)
• weself (Jamaican)

Coordinate terms

• ourself (for the singular "we")

Derived terms

• between ourselves

 

Translations

reflexive: us

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

  Mandarin: 我們自己／我们自己, 我们自己 (wǒmén zìjǐ)

• Esperanto: ni (eo), nin (eo)
• Finnish: itsemme (fi)
• Hungarian: magunk (hu), magunkat (accusative)
• Ido: ni ipsa
• Irish: sinn féin
• Italian: ci (it), la nostra f, il nostro m, le nostre f pl, noi stessi
• Khakas: позыбыс (pozıbıs)
• Nahuatl: tehhuān
• Northern Sami: iežame du, iežamet pl
• Portuguese: nos (pt), nós (pt)
• Romani: amen
• Romanian: noi înșine m, noi însene f
• Russian: себя́ (ru) (sebjá)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: se

• Spanish: nos (es), nosotros (es)
• Sranan Tongo: wisrefi
• Swedish: oss själva
• Tuvan: бодувус (boduvus)
• Ukrainian: себе́ (sebé), собі́ (sobí)
• Yakut: бэйэбит (beyebit)

emphatic: we

• American Sign Language: A@IpsiChest-RadialBack A@ContraChest-RadialBack
• Arabic: أَنْفُسَنَا (ʔanfusanā)
• Belarusian: мы са́мі (my sámi)
• Catalan: mateixos (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 我們自己／我们自己, 我们自己 (wǒmén zìjǐ)

• Finnish: itse (fi)
• Irish: sinn féin
• Latvian: mēs paši m pl, mēs pašas f pl
• Nahuatl: tehhuāntin
• Northern Sami: ieža
• Portuguese: nós mesmos
• Russian: са́ми (ru) (sámi)
• Slovak: my sami, my same
• Spanish: nosotros mismos
• Swedish: (vi (sv)) själva (sv)
• Ukrainian: ми сами́ (my samý), ми самі́ (my samí)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} onszelf (nl)
• French: ^{(please verify)} nous-mêmes (fr)
• German: ^{(please verify)} wir selbst
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} noi stessi
• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} 我々自身 (われわれじしん, wareware jishin)
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 우리 자신 (uri jasin)

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, formal	you	you	yourself yoursen	yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects)	your
		archaic, 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
		genderless	they	them	themself, themselves	theirs	their
		genderless, nonspecific (formal)	one	one	oneself	–	one's
	plural		they	them hem, 'em	themselves theirsen	theirs theirn (obsolete outside dialects)	their