yourselves
English
Alternative forms
- yerselves
- yoselves
Etymology
Morphologically your + -selves.
Pronunciation
- (General American, strong) IPA(key): /jɔɹˈsɛlvz/, /jʊɹˈsɛlvz/
- (General American, weak) IPA(key): /jɚˈsɛlvz/
- (Received Pronunciation, strong) IPA(key): /jɔːˈsɛlvz/, /jʊəˈsɛlvz/
- (Received Pronunciation, weak) IPA(key): /jəˈsɛlvz/
- Rhymes: -ɛlvz
- Hyphenation: your‧selves
Pronoun
yourselves (second person, plural of yourself, plural reflexive of you)
- (reflexive) Inflection of you (plural) used as the object of a verb or non-locative preposition in a clause whose subject is the same (the people addressed).
- You shouldn't blame yourselves.
- Talk amongst yourselves.
- (emphatic) You (plural), used to intensify the subject as the group addressed.
- You yourselves won’t eat at that restaurant. Why are you recommending it to us?
Translations
you (referring to the people being spoken to, previously mentioned)
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intensifier
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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 |