myself in English: The word for me when I am both the person doing something and the person it happens to. (pronoun)

Translation

The word for me when I am both the person doing something and the person it happens to.

Word origin

From Old English me self, the word me joined to self.

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Here "myself" adds force: I did it with no help.

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The action came back to me, so we say "myself", not "me".

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I am both the person looking and the person being looked at.

me

The word the speaker uses for themselves when they receive the action.

I

The word a speaker uses to talk about themselves as the subject of a sentence.

own

Belonging to a particular person and to nobody else.

alone

With no other person there.

you

The word a speaker uses for the person or people they are talking to.

herself

The word for a woman or a girl when she does something to or for that same person.

itself

The same thing or animal you have just named, used when the thing does something to it.

ourselves

The word for you and the people with you when the same group does something to or for itself.

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