Translation
himself; the very
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Examples
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The king himself came.
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She said this herself.
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The thing speaks for itself.
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I saw the commander in person.
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We set out on that very day.
is the intensifier: "himself, herself, itself, the very one". It agrees with the noun it underlines in gender, number and case, so it changes shape with whatever it is attached to: , , die. The declension is the pronominal one, with the irregular genitive and dative across all three genders.
It is not the reflexive, and the two get confused constantly. is "himself" as the object of the verb, referring back to the subject; merely emphasises whoever is in view, and it can attach to any person, including "I myself" ( ). Put them together and you get , "he saw his very self".
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This word is taught in chapter 1, lesson 7: ipse, tu, pro and 10 more words.