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ourselves

English

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /a???s?lvz/, /???s?lvz/

Pronoun

ourselves (first personal plural pronoun, reflexive case of we)

  1. (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.
  2. (emphatic) We; intensifies the subject as the group including the speaker, especially to indicate that no one else satisfies the predicate.
    We did it ourselves.

Synonyms

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

Coordinate terms

  • ourself (for the singular "we")

Translations

See also

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