# ourselves
## English
### Etymology

Morphologically our +‎ -selves.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /aʊəˈsɛlvz/, /ɑːˈsɛlvz/
* (General American) IPA: /aʊɚˈsɛlvz/, /ɑɹˈsɛlvz/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛlvz

### Pronoun

ourselves (first 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.
    Let's not beat ourselves up over this.
* (emphatic) Intensifies the subject as the group including the speaker, especially to indicate that no one else satisfies the predicate or needs to be included.
    We did it ourselves.
* (colloquial) Referring to everyone being addressed.
    Come on everyone! Let's get ourselves up and out of bed, please. (reflexive)
    Now then children, I'm not going to help you with the next problem. We should be able to work this one out ourselves. (emphatic)
* (colloquial, may seem patronising) Referring to an individual person being addressed, especially a person in the speaker's care; also ourself.
    Coordinate term: nurse's we
    Hello Mrs Miggins. Did we manage to wash ourselves this morning? (reflexive)
    Well done Timmy! Did we make that model ourselves? (emphatic)

#### Synonyms

* usself (obsolete or dialectal)
* weself (Jamaican)

#### Coordinate terms

* ourself (for the singular "we")

#### Derived terms

* between ourselves

#### Translations

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### See also

| | | | personal pronoun | personal pronoun | personal pronoun | possessive pronoun | possessive determiner |
| | | | subjective | objective | reflexive | possessive pronoun | possessive determiner |
| first person | singular | singular | I me (colloquial) | me | myself me mysen | mine | my mine (before vowels, archaic) me |
| first person | plural | plural | we | us | ourselves ourself oursen | ours | our |
| second person | singular | standard, formal | you | you | yourself yoursen | yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects) | your |
| second person | singular | archaic, informal | thou | thee | thyself theeself thysen | thine | thy thine (before vowels) |
| second person | plural | standard | you ye (archaic) | you | yourselves | yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects) | your |
| second person | plural | colloquial | you all y'all you guys | you all y'all you guys | y'allselves | y'all's you guys' your guys' (proscribed) | y'all's your all's (nonstandard) you guys' your guys' (proscribed) |
| second person | plural | informal / dialectal | (see list of dialectal forms at you and inflected forms in those entries) | (see list of dialectal forms at you and inflected forms in those entries) | (see list of dialectal forms at you and inflected forms in those entries) | (see list of dialectal forms at you and inflected forms in those entries) | (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 |
| third person | singular | feminine | she | her | herself hersen | hers hern (obsolete outside dialects) | her |
| third person | singular | neuter | it hit | it hit | itself hitself | its his (archaic) | its his (archaic) hits |
| third person | singular | genderless | they | them | themself, themselves | theirs | their |
| third person | singular | genderless, nonspecific (formal) | one | one | oneself | – | one's |
| third person | plural | plural | they | them hem, 'em | themselves theirsen | theirs theirn (obsolete outside dialects) | their |