itself
See also: it self
English
Etymology
From Middle English hit-self, equivalent to it + -self.
Pronunciation
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪtˈsɛlf/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛlf
Pronoun
itself (the third person singular, neuter, personal pronoun, the reflexive form of it, masculine himself, feminine herself, plural themselves)
- (reflexive) it; A thing as the object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject
- The door closed by itself
- (emphatic) it; used to intensify the subject, especially to emphasize that it is the only participant in the predicate
- 1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed [by Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, OCLC 932915040, partition II, section 2, member 6, subsection iv, page 298:
- Beautie alone is a ſoveraigne remedy againſt feare,griefe,and all melancholy fits; a charm,as Peter de la Seine and many other writers affirme,a banquet it ſelfe;he gives inſtance in diſcontented Menelaus that was ſo often freed by Helenas faire face: and hTully, 3 Tusc. cites Epicurus as a chiefe patron of this Tenent.
- The door itself is quite heavy.
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- (emphatic, archaic) it; used to refer back to an earlier subject
- 1842, Andrew Ure, A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines:
- The oil by degrees gets covered with a curdy mass, which after some time settles to the bottom, while itself becomes limpid and colorless.
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Synonyms
- itsself (obsolete)
Derived terms
- in-itselfness
- thing-in-itself
Translations
(reflexive) it
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(emphatic) it
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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
- filets, fistle, fliest, flites, stifle