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yourselves

English

Alternative forms

  • yerselves
  • yoselves

Pronunciation

  • (General American, strong) IPA(key): /j???s?lvz/
  • (General American, weak) IPA(key): /j??s?lvz/
  • (Received Pronunciation, strong) IPA(key): /j???s?lvz/
  • (Received Pronunciation, weak) IPA(key): /j??s?lvz/
  • Hyphenation: your?selves

Pronoun

yourselves (second person, the plural of yourself, the reflexive case of you)

  1. You (plural), used as the object of a verb or preposition, referring to the people being spoken to, previously mentioned.
    You shouldn't blame yourselves.

Translations

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yourselves From the web:

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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

ourselves From the web:

  • ourselves meaning
  • what's ourselves in french
  • ourselves what does it mean
  • what to ourselves in passion we propose
  • what does ourselves mean
  • what we ourselves
  • what is ourselves in a sentence
  • what rhymes ourselves
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