ourselves

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /aʊɚˈsɛlvz/, /ɑɹˈsɛlvz/

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Pronoun

ourselves ‎(second personal plural pronoun, reflexive case of we)

1. (reflexive) Us; the group including the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition when that group also is the subject.

   We should keep this for ourselves.

2. (emphatic) We; intensifies the subject as the group including the speaker, especially to indicate that no one else satisfies the predicate.

   We did it ourselves.

See also

English personal pronouns

Number	Person	Type	Subject	Objective	Reflexive	Possessive adjective	Possessive pronoun
Singular	First	—	I	me	myself	my, mine (archaic)	mine
	Second	—	you	you	yourself	your	yours, yourn (obsolete outside dialects)
		Archaic	thou	thee	thyself, theeself	thy, thine	thine
	Third	Masculine	he	him	himself, hisself (archaic)	his	his, hisn (obsolete outside dialects)
		Feminine	she	her	herself	her	hers, hern (obsolete outside dialects)
		Neuter	it		itself	its	its
		Indefinite	one		oneself	one's	—
Plural	First	—	we	us	ourselves	our	ours, ourn (obsolete outside dialects)
	Second	—	you, ye (archaic)	you	yourselves	your	yours, yourn (obsolete outside dialects)
	Third	—	they	them	themselves	their	theirs, theirn (obsolete outside dialects)

Translations

reflexive: us

• Arabic: أنفسنا
• Belarusian: сябе́ ‎(sjabjé) (accusative, genitive), сабе́ ‎(sabjé) (dative, locative), сабо́й ‎(sabój) (instrumental); -цца ‎(-cca) (verb ending)
• Catalan: ens (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 我們自己, 我们自己 (wǒmén zìjǐ)

• Esperanto: ni (eo), nin (eo)
• Finnish: itsemme (fi)
• Hungarian: magunk, magunkat (accusative)

• Ido: ni ipsa
• Irish: sinn féin
• Italian: ci (it), la nostra f, il nostro m, le nostre f pl
• Nahuatl: tehhuān
• Portuguese: nos (pt), nós (pt)
• Russian: себя́ (ru) ‎(sebjá)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: se

• Spanish: nos (es), nosotros (es)
• Swedish: oss själva

emphatic: we

• American Sign Language: A@IpsiChest-RadialBack A@ContraChest-RadialBack
• Belarusian: мы са́мі ‎(my sámi)
• Catalan: mateixos (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 我們自己, 我们自己 (wǒmén zìjǐ)

• Finnish: itse (fi)

• Irish: sinn féin
• Latvian: mēs paši m pl, mēs pašas f pl
• Nahuatl: tehhuāntin
• Portuguese: nós mesmos
• Russian: са́ми (ru) ‎(sámi)
• Slovak: my sami, my same
• Spanish: nosotros mismos (es)
• Swedish: (vi (sv)) själva (sv)
• Ukrainian: ми сами́ ‎(my samý), ми самі́ ‎(my samí)

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Translations to be checked

• Arabic: انفسنا (anfúsana)
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} onszelf
• French: ^{(please verify)} nous-mêmes
• German: ^{(please verify)} wir selbst

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} noi stessi
• Japanese: 我々自身 (われわれじしん, wareware jishin)
• Korean: 우리 자신 (uri jasin)
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} înșine m, ^{(please verify)} însene f

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