yourselves

English

Alternative forms

• yerselves
• yoselves

Etymology

Morphologically your ‎ -selves.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, strong) IPA^(key): /jɔːˈsɛlvz/, /jʊəˈsɛlvz/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (Received Pronunciation, weak) IPA^(key): /jəˈsɛlvz/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American, strong) IPA^(key): /jɔɹˈsɛlvz/, /jʊɹˈsɛlvz/
• (General American, weak) IPA^(key): /jɚˈsɛlvz/
• Hyphenation: your‧selves
• Rhymes: -ɛlvz

Pronoun

yourselves (second person, plural of yourself, plural reflexive of you)

1. (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.

2. (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

• make yourselves at home

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)

intensifier

• Belarusian: вы са́мі (vy sámi)
• Catalan: mateixos (ca)
• Finnish: itse (fi)
• French: vous-mêmes (fr)
• German: Sie selbst, (informal plural) ihr selbst
• Latvian: jūs paši m pl, jūs pašas f pl
• Northern Sami: ieža
• Portuguese: vós/vocês mesmos m, vós/vocês mesmas f
• Romanian: voi înșivă m pl, voi însevă f pl
• Russian: вы са́ми (vy sámi)
• Slovak: vy sami, vy same
• Spanish: sí mismos, (informal) vosotros mismos, (formal) ustedes mismos
• Ukrainian: ви сами́ (vy samý), ви самі́ (vy samí)

See also

English personal pronouns

Dialectal and obsolete or archaic forms are in italics.

			personal pronoun			possessive pronoun	possessive determiner
			subjective	objective	reflexive
first person	singular		I me (colloquial)	me	myself me mysen	mine	my mine (before vowels, archaic) me
	plural		we	us	ourselves ourself oursen	ours	our
second person	singular	standard, formal	you	you	yourself yoursen	yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects)	your
		archaic, 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	y'all's you guys' your guys' (proscribed)	y'all's your all's (nonstandard) you guys' your guys' (proscribed)
		informal / dialectal	(see list of dialectal forms at you 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
		genderless	they	them	themself, themselves	theirs	their
		genderless, nonspecific (formal)	one	one	oneself	–	one's
	plural		they	them hem, 'em	themselves theirsen	theirs theirn (obsolete outside dialects)	their