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English
Prepositional phrase by oneself
Alone ; without assistance or help from others.
I have always wondered why shoe salesmen think I can't tie my shoes by myself .
You ate the whole thing by yourself ?
Alone, without another's immediate company .
She sat by herself in the corner, waiting quietly.
( rare ) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see by oneself
He kept the gun by himself at all times.
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Arabic: لوحد لحال
Chinese:
Mandarin: 自己 (zh) ( zìjǐ )
Chuukese: pwisin
Dutch: zelfstandig (nl)
Esperanto: sole (eo) , per si mem
Faroese: sjálvur
Finnish: itse (fi) , yksin (fi) , itsekseen (fi)
French: tout seul (fr)
Galician: de seu
German: selbst (de) , selbstständig (de)
Hindi: अकेले (hi) ( akele ) , अपने आप ( apne āp )
Hungarian: magától (hu) , egyedül (hu) , önállóan (hu)
Icelandic: sjálfur (is) m
Irish: i d'aonar
Italian: da solo da soli pl or m per conto mio
Japanese: 自分で (ja) ( じぶんで, jibun de )
Jeju: 제냥으로 ( jenyang-euro )
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Korean: 스스로 (ko) ( seuseuro )
Malayalam: ഒറ്റയ്ക്ക് (ml) ( oṟṟaykkŭ ) , സ്വയം (ml) ( svayaṁ )
Middle Korean: 스싀〮로〮 ( sùsúy-lwó )
Old Korean: 自衣以 ( *SUSuy-lwo )
Polish: sam (pl) , sam z siebie samo- (pl) ( prefix )
Portuguese: sozinho (pt) m
Romanian: de la sine cu de la sine putere de unul singur
Russian: самостоя́тельно (ru) ( samostojátelʹno ) , сам (ru) ( sam ) ( adjective, with genders and numbers )
Spanish: solo (es) , por sí mismo
Swedish: själv (sv) c på egen hand (sv)
Thai: ด้วยตัวเอง เอง (th) ( eeng )
Urdu: اپنے آپ (ur) ( apnē āp ) , خود بخود ( xud baxud ) , اکیلے ( akēlē )
Vietnamese: lấy (vi)
without company
Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Cantonese: 一個人 / 一个人 ( jat1 go3 jan4 ; jat1 go3 jan4-2 ; jat1 go3 jan4-1 )
Mandarin: 一個人 / 一个人 (zh) ( yīgèrén )
Dutch: alleen (nl)
Esperanto: sole (eo) , sola (eo)
Faroese: einsamallur
Finnish: yksin (fi) , yksinään (fi) , itsekseen (fi) , yksikseen (fi)
French: solo (fr) , seul (fr)
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: alleine (de)
Greek: μόνος (el) ( mónos )
Hebrew: בְּגַפּוֹ (he) m ( begapó )
Hindi: please add this translation if you can
Hungarian: egyedül (hu) , magában (hu) , egymagában
Icelandic: aleinn (is) m einn (is) m
Irish: leat féin
Japanese: 一人で (ja) ( ひとりで, hitori de )
Korean: 혼자 (ko) ( honja )
Malayalam: ഒറ്റയ്ക്ക് (ml) ( oṟṟaykkŭ )
Polish: sam (pl)
Portuguese: sozinho (pt) , só (pt) , por si só
Romanian: singur (ro) , de unul singur
Russian: оди́н (ru) ( odín ) ( adjective, with genders and numbers ) , в одино́чку (ru) ( v odinóčku )
Spanish: solo (es) , a solas
Swedish: ensam (sv) , för sig själv (sv)
Thai: ตามลำพัง ลำพัง (th) ( lam-pang ) , ตัวคนเดียว
Turkish: tek başına (tr)
Vietnamese: một mình (vi)
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