yourselves
English
Pronunciation
- (General American, strong) IPA(key): /jʊɹˈsɛlvz/
- (General American, weak) IPA(key): /jɚˈsɛlvz/
- (Received Pronunciation, strong) IPA(key): /jɔːˈsɛlvz/
- (Received Pronunciation, strong) IPA(key): /jəˈsɛlvz/
- Hyphenation: your‧selves
Pronoun
yourselves (second person, the plural of yourself, the reflexive case of you)
- 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
you (referring to the people being spoken to, previously mentioned)
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intensifier
See also
English personal pronouns
personal pronoun | possessive pronoun | possessive determiner | |||||
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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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