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yaself

yaself is the alternative form of yourself.

Meaning of yourself

Pronoun

yourself (referring to the person being spoken to, previously mentioned, the reflexive case of you)

  1. (pronoun, reflexive) Your own self (singular).
    • Be careful with that fire or you'll burn yourself.
  2. (emphatic, pronoun) You (singular); used emphatically, especially to indicate exclusiveness of the referent's participation in the predicate, i.e., that no one else is involved.
    • You yourself know that what you wrote was wrong.
  3. (Ireland, especially, proscribed) You (singular); even when "you" has not been used previously; see usage notes.
    • I spoke with yourself last in February.

Questions about yaself

What is yaself the alternative form of?
Yaself is the alternative form of yourself.

Words near yaself in the dictionary

  1. yasak
  2. yasaks
  3. Yasamal
  4. YASD
  5. YASDs
  6. yaself
  7. Yasgur
  8. Yash
  9. Yasha
  10. yasher koach
  11. yashiki

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yaself (page history and authors); yourself (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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