yourself
See also: Yourself
English
Alternative forms
- yerself
- yo'self
- yoself
- Yourself (honorific)
Etymology
From Middle English yourself, equivalent to your + -self.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, strong) IPA(key): /jɔːˈsɛlf/, /jʊəˈsɛlf/
- (Received Pronunciation, weak) IPA(key): /jəˈsɛlf/
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- (General American, strong) IPA(key): /jɔɹˈsɛlf/, /jʊɹˈsɛlf/
- (General American, weak) IPA(key): /jɚˈsɛlf/
Audio (US) (file)
- Hyphenation: your‧self
- Rhymes: -ɛlf
Pronoun
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.
Derived terms
- hello yourself, and see how you like it
Translations
(reflexive) your own self
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you, used emphatically
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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 |
Middle English
Alternative forms
- youreself, yourselff
Etymology
your + self
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈjuːrsɛlf/
Pronoun
yourself
- Emphatic plural 2nd person pron.
Descendants
- English: yourself
- Yola: yerzel
References
- “yǒur-self, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.