myself
see also: Myself
Pronunciation
Myself
Pronoun
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see also: Myself
Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /maɪˈsɛlf/
- (reflexive pronoun) Me, as direct or indirect object the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition, when the speaker is also the subject. [from 9th c.]
- I taught myself.
- 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. [from 10th c.]
- In my normal state of body or mind.
- Me (as the object of a verb or preposition). [from 10th c.]
- ''I feel like myself.
- (archaic) I (as the subject of a verb). [from 14th c.]
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:
- And my selfe have knowen a Gentleman, a chiefe officer of our crowne, that by right and hope of succession (had he lived unto it) was to inherit above fifty thousand crownes a yeere good land […].
- 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged:
- Myself am confident that an ointment of it is one of the best remedies for a scabby head that is.
- (India, Pakistan, nonstandard) my name is...
- Myself John.
- (reflexive pronoun) me
- myselves
- French: me, m' (before vowel or mute h), moi-même
- German: (accusative) mich, (dative) mir
- Italian: mi
- Portuguese: me, mim
- Russian: себя́
- Spanish: me
Myself
Pronoun
- Alternative letter-case form of myself used when speaking as God or another important figure who is understood from context.
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