ourselves
/aʊɚˈsɛlvz/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.62 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
pron
Us; the group including the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition when that group also is the subject.
pron
Intensifies the subject as the group including the speaker, especially to indicate that no one else satisfies the predicate or needs to be included.
pron
Referring to an individual person being addressed, especially a person in the speaker's care; also ourself.
Colloquial
Example Sentences
- "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"
Etymology
Morphologically our + -selves.
Word Breakdown
- Suffix: our
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /aʊɚˈsɛlvz/
- British English: /aʊəˈsɛlvz/
Usage
Inflected Forms
case of we (reflexive)
Phrases
between ourselves
you ally'all you guys yous
all yours y'all's you guys' your guys'
all your y'all's your all's you guys' your guys'
The following table shows a list of English personal pronoun
including archaic and dialectal forms. Dialectal and obsolete
archaic forms are in italics. 1 See Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for attested neopronoun.