itself
Pronunciation Pronoun
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Pronunciation Pronoun
- (reflexive pronoun) it; A thing as the object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject
- The door closed by itself
- (emphatic) it; used to intensify the subject, especially to emphasize that it is the only participant in the predicate
- 1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed [by Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, OCLC 932915040 ↗, partition II, section 2, member 6, subsection iv, page 298 ↗:
- Beautie alone is a ſoveraigne remedy againſt feare,griefe,and all melancholy fits; a charm,as Peter de la Seine and many other writers affirme,a banquet it ſelfe;he gives inſtance in diſcontented Menelaus that was ſo often freed by Helenas faire face: and hTully, 3 Tusc. cites Epicurus as a chiefe patron of this Tenent.
- The door itself is quite heavy.
- (emphatic, archaic) it; used to refer back to an earlier subject
- French: se
- German: von selbst, von allein, selbst, sich selbst
- Italian: sé
- Portuguese: se, a si mesmo
- Russian: -ся
- Spanish: se, solo, a si mismo, por si mismo
- French: soi-même
- Italian: se stesso, sé stesso
- Portuguese: ele/ela mesmo
- Russian: оно́ сам
- Spanish: sí mismo, mismo
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