myself
/maɪˈsɛlf/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.31 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
pron
Me, as direct or indirect object the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition, when the speaker is also the subject.
pron
Personally, for my part; used in apposition to I, sometimes for simple emphasis and sometimes with implicit exclusion of any others performing the activity described.
pron
Me, as the object of a verb or preposition without a reflexive trigger. Sometimes used for intensifying the pronoun of oneself.
pron
Alternative letter-case form of myself used when speaking as God or another important figure who is understood from context.
Example Sentences
- "I taught myself."
- "(I) don’t think much of your new car, myself."
- "Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”"
- "“If you were a little bit kinder to yourself today, or if you gained insight, if you had an ‘Aha’ like, ‘Oh, man, I really do talk to myself the way my mom talked to me,’ or you identify a childhood wound … all of that is a form of reparenting,” she said."
- "I myself have witnessed the event."
- "I feel like myself."
Etymology
From Middle English myself, meself, from Old English mē selfum and similar phrases, equivalent to me + self, later partly reinterpreted as my + self / -self. Cognate with Scots mysel, mysell (“myself”), West Frisian mysels (“myself”), Dutch mijzelf (“myself”), German mich selbst, mir selbst (“myself”), Norwegian Bokmål meg selv (“myself”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
Phrases
I'll see myself out
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.