oneself
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /wʌnˈsɛlf/
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Pronoun
oneself (reflexive form of the indefinite personal pronoun one, formerly sometimes two words: one's self)
- A person's self: general form of himself, herself or yourself.
- Teaching oneself to swim can be dangerous.
Usage notes
This pronoun can be used for emphasis or to make a verb reflexive.
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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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