ourselves
∞
1.0
- pronoun
- /aʊərˈsɛlvz/
- After a long week, we decided to treat ourselves to a nice dinner.
- find ourselves
- ask ourselves
- call ourselves
Loading YouTube…
Watch on YouTubeSo we went out and we had ourselves a night.
- So we went out and we had ourselves a night.
- We can look at ourselves in the mirror.
- If we can accept ourselves for who we are today.
- So at this point, let us confine ourselves to three main points.
- And then will we love ourselves when we're not getting our way?
- We've learned hard things about ourselves and our communities.
- It leaves us questioning our entire reality and ourselves.
- We were trying to develop targets for ourselves, but it just.
- And anger means we now arm ourselves with our weapons and we attack.
- So why do we allow ourselves to talk to ourselves that way, right?
- But we had to stop ourselves because the main courses are here.
- We're able to buffer ourselves against views that we may disagree with.
- We can all change ourselves to truly start with ourselves.
- But we're not going to punch ourselves in the mouth over this.
- And so we organize ourselves at the highest level with words.
Examples
-
So why do we allow ourselves to talk to ourselves that way, right?
-
If we can accept ourselves for who we are today.
-
So we went out and we had ourselves a night.
-
And then will we love ourselves when we're not getting our way?
-
Sometimes for women, our worst enemy is ourselves.
-
We have to put ourselves in the place of the victims.
-
We can look at ourselves in the mirror.
-
My wife and I want the house to ourselves.
-
We must continually ask ourselves, is this useful?
-
And we need to find out the answers for ourselves.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ourselves combines our ('belonging to us') and selves (the plural of self, 'the person'). So it means 'the people we are' and is used when our group does something to or for itself, or to show we did it without help.