themselves
Part of speech: pron
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Morphologically them + -selves.
Base: them
Affixes: -selves
Inflected forms:
form: of they
pos: pron
tags: reflexive
Senses:
gloss: The reflexive case of they, the third-person plural personal pronoun. The group of people, animals, or objects previously mentioned, as the object of a verb or following a preposition (also used for emphasis).
pos: pron
tags: pronoun
reflexive
third-person
examples: They’ve hurt themselves.
They fought among themselves.
They are going to try climbing Mount Everest themselves.
The preposterous altruism too![…]Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.
The real drama came as these two camps fought for undecideds, who literally found themselves in the middle.
gloss: The reflexive case of they, the third-person singular personal pronoun. The single person previously mentioned, as the object of a verb or following a preposition (also used for emphasis).
pos: pron
tags: pronoun
reflexive
third-person
examples: Would whoever stole my phone please make themselves known.
I don't want anyone to fight among themselves.
Everyone must do it themselves.
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
In fact she was so busy doing all the things that anyone might, who finds themselves alone in an empty house, that she did not notice at first when it began to turn dusk and the rooms to grow dim.
“Anyone who has experienced or witnessed an anaphylaxis reaction knows it can be very stressful deciding when to inject epinephrine to themselves or a child and often delay,” Dr. Jonathan Spergel, chief of the allergy program at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, said in a news release from ARS Pharmaceuticals.
Synonyms: 'emselves
theirselves
themself
theirself
himself
herself
Related words: Ime
me
myselfmemysen
mine
mymineme
we
us
ourselvesourselfoursen
oursourn
our
you
yourselfyoursen
yoursyourn
your
thou
thee
thyselftheeselfthysen
thine
thythine
youye
yourselves
you ally'all you guys yous
y'allselves
all yours y'all's you guys' your guys'
all your y'all's your all's you guys' your guys'
he
him
himselfhisselfhissen
hishisn
his
she
her
herselfhersen
hershern
ithit
itselfhitself
itshis
itshishits
they
them
themself
theirs
their
one
oneself
–
one's
themhem
'em
themselvestheirsen
theirstheirn
The following table shows a list of English personal pronoun
including archaic and dialectal forms. Dialectal and obsolete
archaic forms are in italics. 1 See Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for attested neopronoun.
Translations:
lang: Belarusian
word: яны́ са́мі
roman: janý sámi
lang: Bulgarian
word: самите
roman: samite
lang: Czech
word: sami
lang: Czech
word: samy
lang: Czech
word: samy
lang: Czech
word: sama
lang: French
word: eux-mêmes
lang: French
word: elles-mêmes
lang: Latvian
word: viņi paši
lang: Latvian
word: viņas pašas
lang: Polish
word: sami
lang: Polish
word: same
lang: Portuguese
word: eles mesmos
lang: Portuguese
word: elas mesmas
lang: Russian
word: они́ са́ми
roman: oní sámi
lang: Northern Sami
word: ieža
lang: Slovak
word: oni sami
lang: Slovak
word: ony same
lang: Spanish
word: ellos mismos
lang: Spanish
word: ellas mismas
lang: Ukrainian
word: вони́ сами́
roman: voný samý
lang: Ukrainian
word: вони́ самі́
roman: voný samí
lang: Catalan
word: mateixos
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 他們自己 /他们自己
roman: tāmen zìjǐ
lang: Finnish
word: itsensä
lang: Finnish
word: itseään
lang: Finnish
word: itselleen
lang: Finnish
word: itse
lang: Hungarian
word: önmaguk
lang: Hungarian
word: önmagukat
lang: Japanese
word: 彼ら自身
roman: karera-jishin
lang: Latin
word: ipsos
lang: Latin
word: ipsas
lang: Latin
word: ipsa
lang: Russian
word: себя́
roman: sebjá
lang: Volapük
word: okis