herself
See also: Herself
English
Alternative forms
- Herself (honorific)
Etymology
From Middle English. Equivalent to her + -self.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /hɜːˈsɛlf/, /əsɛlf/
- (General American) IPA(key): /hɝˈsɛlf/, /ɚsɛlf/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛlf
- Hyphenation: her‧self
Pronoun
herself (the third person singular, feminine, personal pronoun, the reflexive form of she, masculine himself, neuter itself, plural themselves)
- (reflexive) Her; the female object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:
- This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.
- She injured herself.
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- (emphatic) She; an intensive repetition of the female subject, often used to indicate the exclusiveness of that person as the only satisfier of the predicate.
- She was injured herself.
- (Ireland) The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; she (used of upper-class ladies, or sarcastically, of women who imagine themselves to be more important than others)
- What's herself up to this time?
- Have you seen herself yet this morning?
Translations
(reflexive object) her
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(as intensifier) she
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See also
English personal pronouns
personal pronoun | possessive pronoun | possessive determiner | |||||
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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'all's you guys's your guys's (proscribed) | y'all's your all's (nonstandard) you guys's your guys's (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 |
Anagrams
- Flesher, flesher