# yourself
## English
### Alternative forms

* yerself
* yo'self
* yoself
* Yourself (honorific)

### Etymology

From Middle English yourself, equivalent to your +‎ -self.

### Pronunciation

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

### Pronoun

yourself (referring to the person being spoken to, previously mentioned, the reflexive case of you)
* (reflexive pronoun) 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.
** (formal, proscribed) You (singular); in other contexts, a hypercorrection perceived as being more polite in formal and professional conversation.
    I spoke with yourself last in February.

#### Derived terms

* because you touch yourself at night
* buy yourself a hat
* check yourself before you wreck yourself
* dig yourself
* do-it-yourself
* do it yourself
* don't keep a dog and bark yourself
* don't knock yourself out
* fuck yourself
* go chase yourself
* go screw yourself
* go shit yourself
* hello yourself, and see how you like it
* keep telling yourself that
* keep yourself safe
* make yourself at home
* please yourself
* stab yourself and pass the dagger
* take care of

#### 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 |

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* youreself, yourselff

### Etymology

your +‎ self

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈjuːrsɛlf/

### Pronoun

yourself
* Emphatic plural 2nd person pron.

#### Descendants

* English: yourself
* Yola: yerzel

#### References

* “yǒur-self, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.