ourselves

== English == === Etymology === Morphologically our +‎ -selves. === Pronunciation === (UK) (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /aʊəˈsɛlvz/, /ɑːˈsɛlvz/ (Northumbria) IPA(key): /wɐˈsɛlz/, /wəˈsɛlz/ (General American) IPA(key): /aʊɚˈsɛlvz/, /ɑɹˈsɛlvz/ Rhymes: -ɛlvz === Pronoun === ourselves (first personal plural pronoun, reflexive case of we) (reflexive) Us; the group including the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition when that group also is the subject. (emphatic) Intensifies the subject as the group including the speaker, especially to indicate that no one else satisfies the predicate or needs to be included. (colloquial) Referring to everyone being addressed. (colloquial, may seem patronising) Referring to an individual person being addressed, especially a person in the speaker's care; also ourself. Coordinate term: nurse's we ==== Synonyms ==== usself (obsolete or dialectal) weself (Scottish, Jamaican) ==== Coordinate terms ==== ourself (for the singular "we") ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === See also ===