itself
Part of speech: pron
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English hit-self, equivalent to it + -self.
Base: it
Affixes: -self
Inflected forms:
form: it
pos: pron
tags: reflexive-of
form: himself
pos: pron
tags: masculine
form: herself
pos: pron
tags: feminine
form: themself
pos: pron
tags: gender-neutral
form: themselves
pos: pron
tags: plural
form: it self
pos: pron
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: it selfe
pos: pron
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: it; A thing as the object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject
pos: pron
tags: neuter
personal
pronoun
reflexive
singular
third-person
examples: When the opportunity presented itself, no feasible course of action suggested itself (to us).
The researchers posit that something they call the “hipster effect” asserts itself in human populations no matter how individualistic we imagine ourselves to be, because it’s individuality itself that sparks conformity.
gloss: it; used to intensify the subject, especially to emphasize that it is the only participant in the predicate
pos: pron
tags: emphatic
neuter
personal
pronoun
singular
third-person
examples: The door itself is quite heavy.
Beautie alone is a ſoveraigne remedy againſt feare,griefe,and all melancholy fits; a charm,as Peter de la Seine and many other writers affirme,a banquet it ſelfe;he gives inſtance in diſcontented Menelaus that was ſo often freed by Helenas faire face: and ʰTully, 3 Tusc. cites Epicurus as a chiefe patron of this Tenent.
So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
The researchers posit that something they call the “hipster effect” asserts itself in human populations no matter how individualistic we imagine ourselves to be, because it’s individuality itself that sparks conformity.
gloss: it; used to refer back to an earlier subject
pos: pron
tags: archaic
emphatic
neuter
personal
pronoun
singular
third-person
examples: The oil by degrees gets covered with a curdy mass, which after some time settles to the bottom, while itself becomes limpid and colorless.
Synonyms: itsself
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
themselves
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.
Derived words: a house divided against itself cannot stand
being-for-itself
being-in-itself
dense-in-itself
end in itself
history repeats itself
in and of itself
in itself
in-itselfness
lend itself to
of itself
pay for itself
repeat itself
simplicity itself
suggest itself
the trash takes itself out
thing-in-itself
thing in itself
unto itself
write itself
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: نَفْسُهُ
roman: nafsuhu
lang: Arabic
word: نَفْسُهَا
roman: nafsuhā
lang: Belarusian
word: сябе́
roman: sjabjé
lang: Belarusian
word: -цца
roman: -cca
lang: Catalan
word: es
lang: Czech
word: sám
lang: Czech
word: se
lang: Czech
word: sebe
lang: Czech
word: sám sebe
lang: Dutch
word: zichzelf
lang: Esperanto
word: sin
lang: Finnish
word: itsensä
lang: French
word: se
lang: Galician
word: se
lang: German
word: von selbst
lang: German
word: von allein
lang: German
word: selbst
lang: German
word: sich selbst
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἑαυτό
roman: heautó
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἑαυτῷ
roman: heautōî
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἑαυτοῦ
roman: heautoû
lang: Hungarian
word: maga
lang: Hungarian
word: magát
lang: Italian
word: sé
lang: Khakas
word: позы
roman: pozı
lang: Latin
word: sē
lang: Latin
word: sēsē
lang: Latin
word: sibi
lang: Latin
word: suī
lang: Mauritian Creole
word: limem
lang: Navajo
word: tʼáá bí
lang: Norwegian
word: seg
lang: Polish
word: się
lang: Portuguese
word: se
lang: Portuguese
word: a si mesmo
lang: Russian
word: -ся
roman: -sja
lang: Russian
word: себя́
roman: sebjá
lang: Russian
word: сам себя́
roman: sam sebjá
lang: Northern Sami
word: iežas
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: se
lang: Spanish
word: se
lang: Spanish
word: solo
lang: Spanish
word: a si mismo
lang: Spanish
word: por si mismo
lang: Tuvan
word: боду
roman: bodu
lang: Ukrainian
word: се́бе
roman: sébe
lang: Welsh
word: ei hun
lang: Welsh
word: ei hunan
lang: Yakut
word: бэйэтэ
roman: beyete