ourselves.
Us; the group including the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition when that group also is the subject.
Meaning & usage
Us; the group including the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition when that group also is the subject.
We should keep this for ourselves.
Let's not beat ourselves up over this.
Intensifies the subject as the group including the speaker, especially to indicate that no one else satisfies the predicate or needs to be included.
We did it ourselves.
Referring to everyone being addressed.
Come on everyone! Let's get ourselves up and out of bed, please.
Now then children, I'm not going to help you with the next problem. We should be able to work this one out ourselves.
Referring to an individual person being addressed, especially a person in the speaker's care; also ourself.
Hello Mrs Miggins. Did we manage to wash ourselves this morning?
Well done Timmy! Did we make that model ourselves?
Where this word comes from
Morphologically our + -selves.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.