yourself
Syllables: your·self/jəˈsɛlf/
yourself pronoun: your own self (singular).
Pronoun (1)
yourself (referring to the person being spoken to, previously mentioned, the reflexive case of you)
- Your own self (singular).
- Be careful with that fire or you'll burn yourself.
- After a good night's sleep you'll feel like yourself again.
- 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.
- You (singular); even when "you" has not been used previously; see usage notes.
- I spoke with yourself last in February.
- No one understands me like yourself.
Pronoun (2) capitalized: Yourself
Yourself
- Honorific alternative letter-case form of yourself, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.
yourself meaning in Arabic and Persian
yourself in Arabic
- (reflexive) your own self
- نفسكَ nafsuka, نفسكِ nafsuki
yourself in Persian
- (reflexive) your own self
- خودت xodat
Examples of yourself in a sentence
- My colleague and yourself are invited to the conference.
- I only spoke to my lawyer and yourself about the issue.
- As an adult, you would find yourself being a people pleaser with the men in your life –– afraid to be rejected and emotionally abandoned.2025 April 28, Madeline Holcombe, “It might be time to ‘reparent’ yourself. Here’s how to get started”, in CNN:
Forms of yourself
| reflexive-of | you |
|---|---|
| alternative honorific | Yourself |
| alternative form (nonstandard) | yerself |
| alternative form (nonstandard) | yo'self |
| alternative form (nonstandard) | yoself |
| alternative form (nonstandard) | yohself |
Origin of yourself
From Middle English yourself, equivalent to your + -self.
Words formed from yourself
- because you touch yourself at night
- buy yourself a hat
- check yourself before you wreck yourself
- dig yourself
- do-it-yourself
- do it yourself
- don't keep a dog and bark yourself
- don't knock yourself out
- fuck yourself
- go chase yourself
- go screw yourself
- go shit yourself
- hello yourself, and see how you like it
- keep telling yourself that
- keep yourself safe
- make yourself at home
- please yourself
- stab yourself and pass the dagger
- take care of
Phrases with yourself
- go play with yourself
- take care of yourself
- go fuck yourself sideways
- don't cut yourself on that edge
- why keep a dog and bark yourself
- if you want a thing done well, do it yourself
- if you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging
- when you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging
Words that rhyme with yourself
38 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- atself
- Godself
- Guelph
- hirself
- it self
- m'self
- themself
- xyrself
- zirself
- -self
- Belf
- Chelf
- coself
- eirself
- emself
- Guelf
- Helf
- hisself
- hitself
- ittself
- know thyself
- meself
- off-the-shelf
- one's self
- oneself
- perself
- Relph
- theeself
- theirself
- theyself
- thonself
- thyself
- xemself
- y'allself
- yerself
- yo'self
- yoself
- youself
Questions about yourself
- What does yourself mean?
- Yourself means your own self (singular).
- What is yourself in Arabic?
- Yourself in Arabic is نفسكَ (nafsuka), نفسكِ (nafsuki). See Yourself meaning in Arabic.
- How do you use yourself in a sentence?
- My colleague and yourself are invited to the conference.
- What part of speech is yourself?
- Yourself is a pronoun.
- How do you pronounce yourself?
- Yourself is pronounced /jəˈsɛlf/.
Words near yourself in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: yourself (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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