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English
Etymology
Morphologically your + -selves.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
yourselves (second person, plural of yourself, plural reflexive of you)
- (reflexive pronoun) Inflection of you (plural) used as the object of a verb or non-locative preposition in a clause whose subject is the same (the people addressed).
You shouldn't blame yourselves.
Talk amongst yourselves.
- (emphatic) You (plural), used to intensify the subject as the group addressed.
You yourselves won’t eat at that restaurant. Why are you recommending it to us?
Derived terms
Translations
you (referring to the people being spoken to, previously mentioned)
- Arabic: أَنْفُسُكُم (ʔanfusukum)
- Belarusian: сябе́ (sjabjé) (accusative, genitive), сабе́ (sabjé) (dative, locative), сабо́й (sabój) (instrumental); -цца (-cca) (verb ending)
- Catalan: us (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 你們自己/你们自己
- Esperanto: vi (eo), vin (eo)
- Finnish: itsenne (fi)
- French: (reflexive) vous (fr)
- German: Sie selbst, sich (de), (informal plural, reflexive of "ihr") euch (de)
- Japanese: ご自分, 御自分 (ごじぶん, go-jibun)
- Khakas: позыңар (pozıñar)
- Korean: 당신 자신 (dangsin jasin)
- Navajo: tʼáá nihí
- Northern Sami: iežade du, iežadet pl
- Portuguese: vós/vocês mesmos m, vós/vocês mesmas f
- Romani: tumen
- Romanian: înșivă m pl, însevă f pl
- Russian: себя́ (ru) (sebjá), вы са́ми (vy sámi)
- Scottish Gaelic: thu fèin
- Serbo-Croatian: sebe (sh)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: se
- Spanish: se (es), ustedes mismos (es)
- Tuvan: бодуңар (boduñar), боттарыңар (bottarıñar)
- Yakut: бэйэҕит (beyeğit)
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See also
English personal pronouns
Dialectal and obsolete or archaic forms are in
italics.