himself
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1.0
- pronoun
- /hɪmˈsɛlf/
:
se (reflexivo)
- After weeks of training, he realized he had to push himself harder to achieve his goals.
- find himself
- think to himself
- see himself
And he says to himself, here we go.
- And he says to himself, here we go.
- So Craig's brother now calls himself Brian Richardson.
- He shocked himself when he heard him say it.
- He wanted time to straighten himself out, to try to write more poems.
- You know, he's just like who he portrays himself as is exactly who he is.
- So comedy UFC podcast, he's recreated himself I don't know how many times.
- James now gets to feed himself and his friend because of me.
- Abraham says softly to himself, Lord God in heaven, I thank you.
- And he is asking himself, why am I doing this?
Examples
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What kind of fool calls himself that?
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But on a more immediate level, it is Christ himself who provides the model of the virtues.
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And he says to himself, here we go.
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Every man for himself, right?
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He's lost himself as a person in his job.
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Oh yeah, he just hasn't been feeling like himself lately.
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Then in 1999, at the age of fifty-nine, he found himself in a new situation.
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I told you he'd be doing well for himself, didn't I?
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As a child, Bismarck defended himself against his ambitious, cold mother with lies.
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Instead, he spent most of the decade floundering to establish himself as a top-rank concert artist.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
A word people in some dialects use instead of the standard word himself
Idioms
- Informal
Each person must look after themselves in a dangerous or confusing situation
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Himself comes from older English parts he and self, where self means 'the same person'. So, himself literally points back to the man mentioned, which is why we use it when he acts on himself or to show he did something personally.