itself

See also: it self

English

Pronunciation

(General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪtˈsɛlf/
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Rhymes: -ɛlf

Pronoun

itself (the third person singular, neuter, personal pronoun, the reflexive form of it, masculine himself, feminine herself, 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
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.

Derived terms

in-itselfness
thing-in-itself

Translations

(reflexive) it

Arabic: نَفْسُهُ‎‎ m (nafsuhu), نَفْسُهَا‎‎ f (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)
German: von selbst, von allein, selbst (de), sich selbst
Greek:
Ancient: ἑαυτό (heautó), ἑαυτῷ (heautôi), ἑαυτοῦ (heautoû)
Latin: sē (la)/sēsē, sibi, suī (la)

Mauritian Creole: limem
Navajo: tʼáá bí
Novial: se
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
Ukrainian: се́бе (sébe)

(emphatic) it

American Sign Language: A@Chesthigh SmallFrontandback
Arabic: نَفْسُهُ‎‎ m (nafsuhu), نَفْسُهَا‎‎ f (nafsuhā)
Belarusian: яно́ само́ n (janó samó)
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)
Greek:
Ancient: αὐτό (autó)

Italian: se stesso m
Latin: ipsum (la)
Latvian: viņš pats m, viņa pati f
Polish: ono samo n
Portuguese: ele/ela mesmo
Russian: оно́ само́ (onó samó)
Slovak: ono samo n
Spanish: sí mismo, mismo (es)
Ukrainian: воно́ само́ n (vonó samó), само́ (samó)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. 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
Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} maga
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 as in, "the door itself"

			personal pronoun			possessive pronoun	possessive determiner
			subjective	objective	reflexive	possessive pronoun	possessive determiner
first person	singular		I	me	myself	mine	my mine (before vowels, archaic)
first person	plural		we	us	ourselves ourself	ours	our
second person	singular	standard	you	you	yourself	yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects)	your
	singular	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
	plural	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

Anagrams

filets, fliest, flites, stifle

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