yourself
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See also: Yourself
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English yourself, equivalent to your + -self.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation, strong) IPA(key): /jɔːˈsɛlf/, /jʊəˈsɛlf/
- (Received Pronunciation, weak) IPA(key): /jəˈsɛlf/
Audio (London, UK) (file)
- (General American, strong) IPA(key): /jɔɹˈsɛlf/, /jʊɹˈsɛlf/
- (General American, weak) IPA(key): /jɚˈsɛlf/
Audio (US) (file)
- Hyphenation: your‧self
- Rhymes: -ɛlf
Pronoun[edit]
yourself (referring to the person being spoken to, previously mentioned, the reflexive case of you)
- (reflexive) Your own self (singular).
- Be careful with that fire or you'll burn yourself.
- 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.
- (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[edit]
- because you touch yourself at night
- buy yourself a hat
- check yourself before you wreck yourself
- do it yourself
- do-it-yourself
- don't keep a dog and bark yourself
- don't knock yourself out
- go chase yourself
- go screw yourself
- go shit yourself
- hello yourself, and see how you like it
- keep telling yourself that
- make yourself at home
- please yourself
- stab yourself and pass the dagger
- take care of
Translations[edit]
(reflexive) your own self
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you, used emphatically
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See also[edit]
English personal pronouns
Dialectal and obsolete or archaic forms are in italics.
Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
yourself
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “yǒur-self, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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