yourself

See also: Yourself

English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation, strong) IPA^(key): /jɔːˈsɛlf/
(Received Pronunciation, strong) IPA^(key): /jəˈsɛlf/
(General American, strong) IPA^(key): /jʊɹˈsɛlf/
(General American, weak) IPA^(key): /jɚˈsɛlf/
Hyphenation: your‧self
Rhymes: -ɛlf
Audio (US) (file)

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.

Translations

(reflexive) your own self

Arabic: نفسكَ‎ m (nafsuka), نفسكِ‎ f (nafsuki)
Egyptian Arabic: نفسَك‎ m (nafsak), نفسِك‎ f (nafsek)
Belarusian: сябе́ (sjabjé) (accusative, genitive), сабе́ (sabjé) (dative, locative), сабо́й (sabój) (instrumental), -цца (-cca) (verb ending)
Catalan: et (ca)
Czech: se (cs), sebe (cs)
Dutch: jijzelf (nl) (informal), uzelf (nl) (formal)
Esperanto: vi (eo), vin (eo)
Finnish: (informal) itsesi (fi), (formal) itsenne (fi)
French: te (fr), vous (fr)
German: dich (de) (informal), dich selbst (informal), sich (de) (formal), sich selbst (formal)
Hungarian: magad, magadat
Ido: tu ipsa, vu ipsa

Italian: te stesso m sg, te stessa f sg, voi stessi m pl, voi stesse f pl
Japanese: 自身 (ja) (jishin)
Latin: tutemet, tute, vosmet pl
Navajo: tʼáá nihí
Novial: vu
Polish: się (pl), siebie (pl)
Portuguese: te (pt), se (pt)
Russian: себя́ (ru) (sebjá), -ся (ru) (-sja)
Scots: yersel
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: se
Spanish: te (es), ti (es), se (es), ti mismo (tuteo, male), ti misma (tuteo, female), vos mismo (voseo, male), vos misma (voseo, female), usted mismo (formal, male), usted misma (formal, female)

you, used emphatically

American Sign Language: A@Chesthigh SmallFrontandback
Belarusian: ты сам m (ty sam), ты сама́ f (ty samá), (plural or formal) вы са́мі (vy sámi)
Catalan: mateix (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 自己 (zh) (zìjǐ)
Czech: sám (cs), samotný (cs)
Esperanto: vi mem
Finnish: (informal) sinä itse, (formal) te itse
French: toi-même (fr), vous-même (fr)

Japanese: 自分 (ja) (じぶん, jibun)
Latin: tute
Latvian: tu pats m, tu pati f, (singular formal) jūs pats m, jūs pati f, (plural informal or formal) jūs paši m pl, jūs pašas f pl
Polish: sam (pl) m pers, sama (pl) f
Portuguese: você/tu mesmo m
Russian: ты са́м m (ty sám), ты сама́ f (ty samá), (plural or formal) вы са́ми (vy sámi)
Slovak: ty sám m, ty sama f, vy sami, vy same
Spanish: tú mismo
Ukrainian: ти сам m (ty sam), ти сама́ f (ty samá), (plural or formal) ви сами́ (vy samý), ви самі́ (vy samí)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

Arabic: ^{(please verify)} نَفْسُك‎ (nafsuk)
Crimean Tatar: ^{(please verify)} özüñ
Dutch: ^{(please verify)} jezelf (nl), ^{(please verify)} uzelf (nl)
Finnish: oma itsesi
French: ^{(please verify)} toi-même (fr), ^{(please verify)} vous-même (fr)
German: ^{(please verify)} du selbst, ^{(please verify)} Sie selbst
Hungarian: önmaga (hu), saját maga

Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} te, ^{(please verify)} tu ipse
Italian: te stesso m sg, te stessa f sg, voi stessi m pl, voi stesse f pl
Japanese: 本来の自分 (honrai no jibun)
Korean: ^{(please verify)} 당신 자신 (dangsin jasin)
Latin: tute, vosmet pl
Russian: ^{(please verify)} себя́ (ru) (sebjá)

			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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