oneself

English edit

A contracted form of one's self (Mid-16th century). Equivalent to one +‎ -self.

oneself (reflexive form of the indefinite personal pronoun one, formerly sometimes two words: one's self)

A person's self: general form of himself, herself, themself or yourself.
Teaching oneself to swim can be dangerous.

This pronoun can be used for emphasis or to make a verb reflexive.

a person's self: general form of himself, herself, themself or yourself

Arabic: نَفْس (ar) (nafs)
Catalan: es (ca)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 自己 (zi⁶ gei²)

Hokkien: 家己 (zh-min-nan) (ka-kī)

Mandarin: 自己 (zh) (zìjǐ), 自身 (zh) (zìshēn), 自個兒／自个儿 (zh) (zìgěr)
Dutch: zichzelf (nl), zich (nl)
Esperanto: mem (eo)
Finnish: itsensä (fi)
French: soi-même (fr)
Galician: un mesmo
German: selbst (de), sich (de)
Hindi: स्वयं (hi) (svayã), ख़ुद (xud)
Hungarian: maga (hu), önmaga (hu), saját maga
Japanese: 自分 (ja) (じぶん, jibun), 自分自身 (ja) (じぶんじしん, jibun jishin), 自身 (ja) (じしん, jishin), 自己 (ja) (じこ, jiko)
Korean: 자신(自身) (ko) (jasin), 자기(自己) (ko) (jagi)
Mari:
Eastern Mari: шке (ške)
Mauritian Creole: limem
Persian: خود (fa) (xud, xod), نفس (fa) (nafs)
Polish: siebie (pl), sobie (pl)
Portuguese: se (pt), si (pt) (prepositional)
Quechua: kiki
Russian: (nominative) сам (ru) (sam), (genitive, accusative) себя́ (ru) (sebjá), (dative, prepositional) себе́ (ru) (sebé), (etc.)
Sanskrit: स्वयम् (sa) (svayam)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: se
Spanish: sí mismo, uno mismo (es)
Swedish: sig själv, sig (sv)
Telugu: తాను (te) (tānu)
Thai: ตัวเอง (th) (dtuua-eeng)
Turkish: ^{(please verify)} kendi başına (tr), ^{(please verify)} kendi kendine (tr), ^{(please verify)} öz başına (tr)
Urdu: خود (xud)
Vietnamese: mình (vi)

English personal pronouns

Dialectal and obsolete or archaic forms are in italics.

			personal pronoun			possessive pronoun	possessive determiner
			subjective	objective	reflexive	possessive pronoun	possessive determiner
first person	singular		I me (colloquial)	me	myself me mysen	mine	my mine (before vowels, archaic) me
first person	plural		we	us	ourselves ourself oursen	ours	our
second person	singular	standard, formal	you	you	yourself yoursen	yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects)	your
	singular	archaic, informal	thou	thee	thyself theeself thysen	thine	thy thine (before vowels)
	plural	standard	you ye (archaic)	you	yourselves	yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects)	your
		colloquial	you all y'all you guys	you all y'all you guys	y'allselves	y'all's you guys' your guys' (proscribed)	y'all's your all's (nonstandard) you guys' your guys' (proscribed)
		informal / dialectal	(see list of dialectal forms at you* and inflected forms in those entries*)
third person	singular	masculine	he	him	himself hisself (archaic) hissen	his hisn (obsolete outside dialects)	his
		feminine	she	her	herself hersen	hers hern (obsolete outside dialects)	her
		neuter	it hit	it hit	itself hitself	its his (archaic)	its his (archaic) hits
		genderless	they	them	themself, themselves	theirs	their
		genderless, nonspecific (formal)	one	one	oneself	–	one's
	plural		they	them hem, 'em	themselves theirsen	theirs theirn (obsolete outside dialects)	their