herself
See also: Herself
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /hɜːˈsɛlf/, /əsɛlf/
- (General American) IPA(key): /hɝˈsɛlf/, /ɚsɛlf/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛlf
- Hyphenation: her‧self
Pronoun
herself (the third person singular, feminine, personal pronoun, the reflexive form of she, masculine himself, neuter itself, plural themselves)
- (reflexive) Her; the female object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 17, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.
- She injured herself.
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- (emphatic) She; an intensive repetition of the female subject, often used to indicate the exclusiveness of that person as the only satisfier of the predicate.
- She was injured herself.
- (Ireland) The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; she (used of upper-class ladies, or sarcastically, of women who imagine themselves to be more important than others)
- What's herself up to this time?
- Have you seen herself yet this morning?
Translations
(reflexive object) her
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(as intensifier) she
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See also
English personal pronouns
| personal pronoun | possessive pronoun | possessive determiner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subjective | objective | reflexive | |||||
| first person | singular | I | me | myself | mine | my mine (before vowels, archaic) | |
| plural | we | us | ourselves ourself | ours | our | ||
| second person | singular | standard | you | you | yourself | yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects) | your |
| archaic, informal | thou | thee | thyself theeself | thine | thy thine (before vowels) | ||
| plural | standard | you you all ye (archaic) | you you all | yourselves | yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects) | your | |
| informal / dialectal | (see list of dialectal forms at you and inflected forms in those entries) | ||||||
| third person | singular | masculine | he | him | himself hisself (archaic) | his hisn (obsolete outside dialects) | his |
| feminine | she | her | herself | hers hern (obsolete outside dialects) | her | ||
| neuter | it | it | itself | its his (archaic) | its his (archaic) | ||
| genderless | they | them | themself, themselves | theirs | their | ||
| genderless, nonspecific (formal) |
one | one | oneself | – | one's | ||
| plural | they | them | themselves | theirs theirn (obsolete outside dialects) | their | ||
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