/ðəmˈselvz/
Translation
The word you use when the people doing something are also the people it happens to.
Word origin
A joining of them and self, used in English since the fourteenth century.
- Origin
- English
- Root
- them self
Examples
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They made it for the same people who did the making.
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The action came back onto the people who did it.
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After a preposition the same form is used.
Used in
Grammar articles
(10)Adjective order in English: opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material, purpose
Adverb position in English: before the verb, after be, and the just, still and already traps
Discourse markers in English: well, anyway, actually, mind you and by the way
Ellipsis and substitution in English: I think so, neither do I, and the words you are allowed to leave out
Future continuous and future perfect in English: will be doing vs will have done
Hedging and vague language in English: sort of, a bit, -ish, stuff and or so
Past perfect tense: had plus past participle, and when English actually needs it
Question tags in English: the mirror rule, aren't I, and tags after let's and imperatives
Reflexive and reciprocal pronouns in English: myself, yourself, each other, and when English does not bother
Word formation with prefixes: un-, in-, im-, dis-, re-, over-, under- and mis-
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