himself en · PRON
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Middle English hymself, from Old English him selfum. Equivalent to him + -self.
Meanings
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(masculine, personal, pronoun, reflexive, singular, third-person) Him; the male object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject
He injured himself.
Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:One Terrorgram user livestreamed himself stabbing five people outside of a mosque in Turkey, she said, and a 19-year-old Slovakian man praised the group in a manifesto before killing two people at an LGBTQ bar in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.
2024 September 9, Hannah Rabinowitz, “Alleged leaders of White supremacist group charged in effort to encourage terrorism and hate crimes”, in CNN:
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(emphatic, masculine, personal, pronoun, singular, third-person) He; used as an intensifier, often to emphasize that the referent is the exclusive participant in the predicate
Therefore the Lord himſelfe ſhal giue you a ſigne:[…].
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 7:14, column 2:The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.
2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:He was injured himself.
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(Ireland, masculine, personal, pronoun, qualifier:otherwise archaic, singular, third-person) The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; he himself.
With shame remembers, while himself was one / Of the same herd, himself the same had done.
Sir John Denham (1614-1669)Dennis: His glass is there and himself is in the toilet.
1998, Kirk Jones, Waking Ned, Tomboy films:Yet it is that himselfe had been liberally gratified by his Unkle with militarie rewards, before ever he went to warres.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 7, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
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(Ireland, masculine, personal, pronoun, singular, third-person) The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; he (used of upper-class gentlemen, or sarcastically, of men who imagine themselves to be more important than others)
Have you seen himself yet this morning?
Has himself come down to breakfast yet?
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| herself | Gender=Fem | lexicographic | |
| himselve | alternative, obsolete | lexicographic | |
| itself | Gender=Neut | lexicographic | |
| himself | Number=Sing | gender-neutral | lexicographic |
| themself | Number=Sing | gender-neutral | lexicographic |
| he | reflexive-of | lexicographic | |
| Himself | alternative, honorific | lexicographic | |
| themselves | Number=Sing | gender-neutral | lexicographic |
| themselves | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| himselfe | alternative, obsolete | lexicographic |
Deriveds
give someone enough rope and they'll hang themself · every man for himself · he who digs a pit for others falls in himself
Relateds
Ime · they · he · themhem · mymineme · me · thou · your · all yours y'all's you guys' your guys' · her · thyselftheeselfthysen · she · themselvestheirsen · y'allselves · oursourn · our · themself · himselfhisselfhissen · The following table shows a list of English personal pronoun · itselfhitself · one · yourselves · mine · all your y'all's your all's you guys' your guys' · yoursyourn · archaic forms are in italics. 1 See Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for attested neopronoun. · yourselfyoursen · itshishits · itshis · ourselvesourselfoursen · us · – · their · him · we · you · one's · ithit · hishisn · including archaic and dialectal forms. Dialectal and obsolete · thythine · myselfmemysen · theirstheirn · hershern · his · themselves · herselfhersen · youye · thine · you ally'all you guys yous · them · theirs · 'em · oneself · thee
Synonyms
Translations (86)
nl zelf ((emphatic, exclusive) he) · zdj enafsi ya hahe ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · nl zichzelf ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · sah бэйэтэ ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · cs sebe ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · ar نَفْسَهُ ((emphatic, exclusive) he) · de er selbst ((emphatic, exclusive) he) · cmn 他自己 ((emphatic, exclusive) he) · ro se ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · zza eyeri ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · fr lui-même ((emphatic, exclusive) he) · ja 彼自身 ((emphatic, exclusive) he) · se iežas ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · cy ei hun ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · gd esan ((emphatic, exclusive) he) · sco himsel ((emphatic, exclusive) he) · sk sa ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · se ieš ((emphatic, exclusive) he) · fr se ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · fi itse ((emphatic, exclusive) he) · nv tʼáá hó ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · cs sám ((emphatic, exclusive) he) · la suī ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · xag 𐔼𐕖𐕒𐕡𐕎𐕖𐕒𐕡 ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · grc ἑαυτῷ ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · ase A@Chesthigh SmallFrontandback ((emphatic, exclusive) he) · hu magát ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · de sich ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · be ён сам ((emphatic, exclusive) he) · la sibi ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · es sí mismo ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · nrf li-mesme ((emphatic, exclusive) he) · nv tʼáá bí ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · la sēsē ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · kjh позы ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · be сабе́ ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · sco himsel ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · gd e ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · uk він сам ((emphatic, exclusive) he) · es él mismo ((emphatic, exclusive) he) · nl zich ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · dsb se ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · tyv боду ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · cs se ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · gd esan ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · es él mismo ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · eo sin ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · fr à lui-même ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · rmf pes ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · pt ele mesmo ((emphatic, exclusive) he) · eo si mem ((emphatic, exclusive) he) · pt a si mesmo ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · pt si ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · la sē ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · zza ay ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · be сабо́й ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · lv viņš pats ((emphatic, exclusive) he) · ca es ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · ru сам ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · sk sám ((emphatic, exclusive) he) · fr lui-même ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · grc ἑαυτοῦ ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · rom pes ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · no seg ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · be сябе́ ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · mfe limem ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · egy D:z:f ((emphatic, exclusive) he) · eo li mem ((emphatic, exclusive) he) · nl hijzelf ((emphatic, exclusive) he) · ro el însuși ((emphatic, exclusive) he) · fi itsensä ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · hu maga ((emphatic, exclusive) he) · ca mateix ((emphatic, exclusive) he) · pt se ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · ru собо́й ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · ru себя́ ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · be -цца ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · cy ei hunan ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · grc ἑαυτόν ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · grc αὐτός ((emphatic, exclusive) he) · la ipse ((emphatic, exclusive) he) · sk seba ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · ru он сам ((emphatic, exclusive) he) · sv sig ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · vo oki ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object) · tly اشتن ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)