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myself.

Me, as direct or indirect object the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition, when the speaker is also the subject.

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

pron/maɪˈsɛlf//məˈsɛlf/
  1. Me, as direct or indirect object the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition, when the speaker is also the subject.

    pronoun · reflexive
    I taught myself.
    (I) don’t think much of your new car, myself.
  2. Personally, for my part; used in apposition to I, sometimes for simple emphasis and sometimes with implicit exclusion of any others performing the activity described.

    I myself have witnessed the event.
  3. In my normal state of body or mind.

    I feel like myself.
  4. Me, as the object of a verb or preposition without a reflexive trigger. Sometimes used for intensifying the pronoun of oneself.

    proscribed
    Give the ball to John or myself.
  5. I (as the subject of a verb).

    archaic · proscribed
    My wife and myself want to go on vacation.
  6. my name is...

    India · Pakistan · nonstandard
    Myself John.
Where this word comes from

From Middle English myself, meself, from Old English mē selfum and similar phrases, equivalent to me + self, later partly reinterpreted as my + self / -self. Cognate with Scots mysel, mysell (“myself”), West Frisian mysels (“myself”), Dutch mijzelf (“myself”), German mich selbst, mir selbst (“myself”), Norwegian Bokmål meg selv (“myself”).

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