/jɔːˈself/
Translation
Used when the person doing something and the person it happens to are both you.
Word origin
From Middle English your self, two words that grew into one, in the same way as myself and himself.
- Origin
- Middle English
- Root
- your self
- English cognates
- your, self
Examples
, .
You do it and it happens to you.
?
Here "yourself" means with no help from anyone.
more .
To help yourself is to take as much as you want.
Used in
Grammar articles
(15)Causative have and get in English: have something done, get something done and having someone do it
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
Emphasis in English: I do like it, my own, the very, and how to push back
Future continuous and future perfect in English: will be doing vs will have done
Indirect questions in English: Could you tell me where the station is, and the word order that goes with it
Nominalisation in English: arrive becomes arrival, decide becomes decision, and why written English turns actions into things
Participle clauses in English: -ing and -ed clauses, and the dangling participle trap
Advanced passive structures in English: the get-passive, it is said that, and passives with two objects
Past modals in English: should have, could have, must have and might have
Present simple tense: rules, examples and when to use 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
Verb patterns with objects in English: want somebody to do, make somebody do, and see somebody doing
Wish and if only in English: wish + past, wish + past perfect, wish + would, and why I wish I would is wrong
Add to review queue
Track this word in your spaced-repetition queue and be tested on it at the right interval.
Go to my review queueThis word is part of lesson 5.