ourselves

English

Pronunciation

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

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

(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.
(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.

Coordinate terms

ourself (for the singular "we")

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 (nl)
French: ^{(please verify)} nous-mêmes (fr)
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

			personal pronoun			possessive pronoun	possessive determiner
			subjective	objective	reflexive	possessive pronoun	possessive determiner
first person	singular		I	me	myself	mine	my mine (before vowels, archaic)
first person	plural		we	us	ourselves ourself	ours	our
second person	singular	standard	you	you	yourself	yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects)	your
	singular	archaic, informal	thou	thee	thyself theeself	thine	thy thine (before vowels)
	plural	standard	you you all ye (archaic)	you you all	yourselves	yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects)	your
	plural	informal / dialectal	(see list of dialectal forms at you and inflected forms in those entries)
third person	singular	masculine	he	him	himself hisself (archaic)	his hisn (obsolete outside dialects)	his
		feminine	she	her	herself	hers hern (obsolete outside dialects)	her
		neuter	it	it	itself	its his (archaic)	its his (archaic)
		genderless	they	them	themself, themselves	theirs	their
		genderless, nonspecific (formal)	one	one	oneself	–	one's
	plural		they	them	themselves	theirs theirn (obsolete outside dialects)	their

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