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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.
Synonyms
Translations
without help
- Arabic: لوحد, لحال
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 自己 (zh) (zìjǐ)
- Chuukese: pwisin
- Dutch: zelfstandig (nl)
- Esperanto: sole (eo)
- 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)
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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)
- 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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