See also: it self
Contents
- 1 English
- 1.1 Alternative forms
- 1.2 Etymology
- 1.3 Pronunciation
- 1.4 Pronoun
- 1.4.1 Synonyms
- 1.4.2 Derived terms
- 1.4.3 Translations
- 1.4.4 See also
- 1.5 Anagrams
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English hit-self, equivalent to it + -self.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪtˈsɛlf/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛlf
Pronoun[edit]
itself (the third person singular, neuter, personal pronoun, the reflexive form of it, masculine himself, feminine herself, gender-neutral themself, plural themselves)
- (reflexive) it; A thing as the object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject
- The door closed by itself
- (emphatic) it; used to intensify the subject, especially to emphasize that it is the only participant in the predicate
1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy.[…], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed [by Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 6, subsection iv, page 298:
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.
- The door itself is quite heavy.
- (emphatic, archaic) it; used to refer back to an earlier subject
1842, Andrew Ure, A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines:
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[edit]
- itsself (obsolete)
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
(reflexive) it
- Arabic: نَفْسُهُm (nafsuhu), نَفْسُهَاf (nafsuhā)
- Belarusian: сябе́ (sjabjé), -цца (-cca) (verb ending)
- Catalan: es(ca)
- Czech: sám(cs), se(cs), sebe(cs), sám sebe
- Dutch: zichzelf(nl)
- Finnish: itsensä(fi)
- French: se(fr)
- Galician: se(gl)
- German: von selbst, von allein, selbst(de), sich selbst
- Greek:
- Hungarian: (nominative) maga(hu), (accusative) magát(hu)
- Italian: sé(it)m or f
- Khakas: позы (pozı)
- Latin: sē(la)/sēsē, sibi, suī(la)
- Mauritian Creole: limem
- Navajo: tʼáá bí
- Northern Sami: iežas
- Polish: się(pl)
- Portuguese: se(pt), a si mesmo
- Russian: -ся(ru) (-sja), себя́(ru) (sebjá), сам себя́ (sam sebjá)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: se
- Spanish: se(es), solo(es), a si mismo, por si mismo
- Tuvan: боду (bodu)
- Ukrainian: се́бе (sébe)
- Yakut: бэйэтэ (beyete)
(emphatic) it
- American Sign Language: A@Chesthigh SmallFrontandback
- Arabic: نَفْسُهُm (nafsuhu), نَفْسُهَاf (nafsuhā)
- Belarusian: яно́ само́n (janó samó)
- Bulgarian: самият(bg) (samijat)
- Catalan: mateix(ca)
- Czech: sám(cs), samotný(cs), o sobě, sám o sobě, jako takový
- Dutch: zelf(nl)
- Esperanto: mem(eo)
- Finnish: itse(fi)
- French: soi-même(fr)
- Galician: mesmo(gl)
- Greek:
- Ancient: αὐτό (autó)
- Hungarian: maga(hu)
- Italian: se stessom, sé stessom
- Latin: ipsum(la)
- Latvian: viņš patsm, viņa patif
- Northern Sami: ieš
- Polish: ono samon
- Portuguese: ele/ela mesmo, próprio/própria
- Russian: оно́ само́ (onó samó)
- Slovak: ono samon
- Spanish: sí mismo, mismo(es)
- Ukrainian: воно́ само́n (vonó samó), само́ (samó)
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout §Translations.
Translations to be checked
- Esperanto: (please verify) si(eo), (please verify) mem(eo)
- German: (please verify) sich selbst
- Interlingua: (please verify) ipse
- Italian: (please verify) se stesso
- Japanese: (please verify) それ自身 (それじしん, sore jishin)
- Korean: (please verify) 그것 자체 (geugeot jache)
- Mandarin: (please verify) 它本身(zh) (tā běn shēn)
- Swedish: (please verify) sig(sv), (please verify) sig själv (reflexive), (please verify) i sig(sv) as in, "the door itself"
See also[edit]
English personal pronouns
Dialectal and obsolete or archaic forms are in italics.
Anagrams[edit]
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