Meaning of ourselves | Babel Free

Pronoun CEFR A2 Frequent

aʊəˈsɛlvz

Definitions

Us; the group including the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition when that group also is the subject.
reflexive
we (masculine plural)
Intensifies the subject as the group including the speaker, especially to indicate that no one else satisfies the predicate or needs to be included.
emphatic
Referring to everyone being addressed.
colloquial
Referring to an individual person being addressed, especially a person in the speaker's care; also ourself.
colloquial

العربية أنفسنا

Беларуская сабе сабой сябе

Bosanski nos se sebe sebi si si sobom sobom се себе себи си собом

Català ens

Čeština sebe

Cymraeg ein hun

Esperanto ni nin

Español nosotros

Suomi itsemme

Gaeilge Sinn Féin

Hrvatski nos se sebe sebi si si sobom sobom се себе себи си собом

Magyar magunk magunkat

Italiano ci noi stesse noi stessi

日本語我達

Kurdî cî çi nî nîn nin noş

Português nós

Русский себя

Српски nos se sebe sebi si si sobom sobom се себе себи си собом

Svenska själva

ไทย ตัวเอง

Українська себе собі

“We should keep this for ourselves.”

“Let's not beat ourselves up over this.”

“We did it ourselves.”

“Come on everyone! Let's get ourselves up and out of bed, please.”

“Now then children, I'm not going to help you with the next problem. We should be able to work this one out ourselves.”

“Coordinate term: nurse's we”

“Hello Mrs Miggins. Did we manage to wash ourselves this morning?”

“Well done Timmy! Did we make that model ourselves?”

Elementary
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.

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