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itself

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See also:it self

English

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itself (the third person singular, neuter, personal pronoun,the reflexive form ofit,masculinehimself,feminineherself,gender-neutralthemself,pluralthemselves)

(reflexive pronoun)it;A thing as the object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject
When the opportunity presenteditself, no feasiblecourse of action suggesteditself (to us).
- 2014 December 2, David DiSalvo, “Are You Vulnerable to the Hipster Effect?”, inPsychology Today‎^[1], archived fromthe original on30 August 2025:
  The researchers posit that something they call the “hipster effect” assertsitself in human populations no matter how individualistic we imagine ourselves to be, because it’s individualityitself that sparks conformity.
(emphatic)it;used to intensify the subject, especially to emphasize that it is the only participant in the predicate
The dooritself is quite heavy.
- 1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym;Robert Burton],The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps,→OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 6, subsection iv,page298:
  Beautie alone is a ſoveraigne remedy againſt feare,griefe,and all melancholy fits; a charm,asPeter de la Seine and many other writers affirme,a banquetit ſelfe;he gives inſtance in diſcontentedMenelaus that was ſo often freed byHelenas faire face: and^hTully, 3 Tusc. cites Epicurus as a chiefe patron of this Tenent.
- 2014 December 2, David DiSalvo, “Are You Vulnerable to the Hipster Effect?”, inPsychology Today‎^[2], archived fromthe original on30 August 2025:
  The researchers posit that something they call the “hipster effect” asserts itself in human populations no matter how individualistic we imagine ourselves to be, because it’s individualityitself that sparks conformity.
(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, whileitself becomes limpid and colorless.

Synonyms

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itsself(obsolete)

Derived terms

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Translations

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(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)
Esperanto:sin (eo)
Finnish:itsensä (fi)
French:se (fr)
Galician:se (gl)
German:von selbst,von allein,selbst (de),sich selbst
Greek:
Ancient:ἑαυτό(heautó),ἑαυτῷ(heautōî),ἑαυτοῦ(heautoû)
Hungarian:(nominative)maga (hu),(accusative)magát (hu)
Italian:sé (it) m or f
Khakas:позы(pozı)
Latin:sē (la)/sēsē,sibi,suī (la)
Mauritian Creole:limem
Navajo:tʼáá bí
Northern Sami:iežas
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 /por si mismo
Tuvan:боду(bodu)
Ukrainian:се́бе(sébe)
Welsh:ei hun,ei hunan(South Wales)
Yakut:бэйэтэ(beyete)

(emphatic) it

American Sign Language:A@Chesthigh SmallFrontandback
Arabic:نَفْسُهُ m(nafsuhu),نَفْسُهَا f(nafsuhā)
Belarusian:яно́само́ n(janó samó)
Bulgarian:самият (bg)(samijat)
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)
Galician:mesmo (gl)
Greek:
Ancient:αὐτό(autó)
Hungarian:maga (hu)
Italian:se stesso m,sé stesso m
Latin:ipsum (la)
Latvian:viņš pats m,viņa pati f
Northern Sami:ieš
Polish:ono samo n
Portuguese:ele/ela mesmo,próprio/própria
Russian:оно́само́(onó samó)
Slovak:ono samo n
Spanish:sí mismo,mismo (es),en sí
Ukrainian:воно́само́ n(vonó samó),само́(samó)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions atWiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Esperanto:^{(pleaseverify)}si (eo),^{(pleaseverify)}mem (eo)
German:^{(pleaseverify)}sich selbst
Interlingua:^{(pleaseverify)}ipse
Italian:^{(pleaseverify)}se stesso
Japanese:^{(pleaseverify)}それ自身(それじしん, sore jishin)
Korean:^{(pleaseverify)}그것 자체(geugeot jache)
Mandarin:^{(pleaseverify)}它本身 (zh)(tā běn shēn)
Swedish:^{(pleaseverify)}sig (sv),^{(pleaseverify)}sig själv(reflexive),^{(pleaseverify)}i sig (sv)as in, "the door itself"

			personal pronoun			possessive pronoun	possessive determiner
			subjective	objective	reflexive	possessive pronoun	possessive determiner
first person	singular		I me (colloquial)	me	myself me mysen	mine	my mine(before vowels, archaic) me
first person	plural		we	us	ourselves ourself oursen	ours ourn(obsolete outside dialects)	our
second person	singular	standard (historically formal)	you	you	yourself yoursen	yours yourn(obsolete outside dialects)	your
	singular	archaic (historically informal)	thou	thee	thyself theeself thysen	thine	thy thine(before vowels)
	plural	standard	you ye(archaic)	you	yourselves	yours yourn(obsolete outside dialects)	your
		colloquial	you all y'all you guys	you all y'all you guys	y'allselves	all yours y'all's you guys' your guys'	all your y'all's your all's(nonstandard) you guys' your guys'
		informal / dialectal	(see list of dialectal forms atyou and inflected forms in those entries)
third person	singular	masculine	he	him	himself hisself(archaic) hissen	his hisn(obsolete outside dialects)	his
		feminine	she	her	herself hersen	hers hern(obsolete outside dialects)	her
		neuter	it hit	it hit	itself hitself	its his(archaic)	its his(archaic) hits
		genderless¹	they	them	themself,themselves	theirs	their
		nonspecific (formal)	one	one	oneself	–	one's
	plural		they	them hem,'em	themselves theirsen	theirs theirn(obsolete outside dialects)	their