Johnson is a recluse; he prefers to isolate himself from the rest of the students in our class.
Source: tatoeba (1970)
Himself
//hɪmˈsɛlf//
Synonyms for "himself" (33 found)
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Closest matches (7)
Strong matches (10)
Related words (16)
Noun(3 words)
Pronoun(2 words)
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Synonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
54 entries'emImeThe following table shows a list of English personal pronounall your y'all's your all's you guys' your guys'all yours y'all's you guys' your guys'archaic forms are in italics. 1 See Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for attested neopronoun.heherherselfhersenhershernhimhimselfhisselfhissenhishishisnincluding archaic and dialectal forms. Dialectal and obsoleteithit
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derived
3 entriesderived from
2 entriesdistinct from
2 entrieshas context
3 entriesis a
5 entriesrelated to
10 entriesTranslations
86 translations across 43 languages.
Aghwan
1 entries- 𐔼𐕖𐕒𐕡𐕎𐕖𐕒𐕡 pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
American Sign Language
1 entries- A@Chesthigh SmallFrontandback pron ((emphatic, exclusive) he)
Ancient Greek
4 entries- αὐτός pron ((emphatic, exclusive) he)
- ἑαυτοῦ pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
- ἑαυτόν pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
- ἑαυτῷ pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
Arabic
1 entries- نَفْسَهُ pron ((emphatic, exclusive) he)
Belarusian
4 entries- сабе́ pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
- сабо́й pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
- сябе́ pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
- цца pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
Catalan
2 entries- es pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
- mateix pron ((emphatic, exclusive) he)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 他自己 pron ((emphatic, exclusive) he)
Czech
3 entries- se pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
- sebe pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
- sám pron ((emphatic, exclusive) he)
Dutch
4 entries- hijzelf pron ((emphatic, exclusive) he)
- zelf pron ((emphatic, exclusive) he)
- zich pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
- zichzelf pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
Egyptian
1 entries- D:z:f pron ((emphatic, exclusive) he)
Esperanto
3 entries- li mem pron ((emphatic, exclusive) he)
- si mem pron ((emphatic, exclusive) he)
- sin pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
Finnish
2 entries- itse pron ((emphatic, exclusive) he)
- itsensä pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
French
4 entries- lui-même pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
- lui-même pron ((emphatic, exclusive) he)
- se pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
- à lui-même pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
German
2 entries- er selbst pron ((emphatic, exclusive) he)
- sich pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
Hungarian
2 entries- maga pron ((emphatic, exclusive) he)
- magát pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
Japanese
1 entries- 彼自身 pron ((emphatic, exclusive) he)
Kalo Finnish Romani
1 entries- pes pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
Khakas
1 entries- позы pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
Latin
4 entries- ipse pron ((emphatic, exclusive) he)
- sibi pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
- suī pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
- sē pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
Latvian
1 entries- viņš pats pron ((emphatic, exclusive) he)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- se pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
Mauritian Creole
1 entries- limem pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
Navajo
2 entries- tʼáá bí pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
- tʼáá hó pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
Ngazidja Comorian
1 entries- enafsi ya hahe pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
Norman
1 entries- li-mesme pron ((emphatic, exclusive) he)
Northern Sami
2 entries- ieš pron ((emphatic, exclusive) he)
- iežas pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
Norwegian
1 entries- seg pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
Portuguese
4 entries- a si mesmo pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
- ele mesmo pron ((emphatic, exclusive) he)
- se pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
- si pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
Romani
1 entries- pes pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
Romanian
2 entries- el însuși pron ((emphatic, exclusive) he)
- se pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
Russian
4 entries- он сам pron ((emphatic, exclusive) he)
- сам pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
- себя́ pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
- собо́й pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
Scots
2 entries- himsel pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
- himsel pron ((emphatic, exclusive) he)
Scottish Gaelic
3 entries- e pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
- esan pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
- esan pron ((emphatic, exclusive) he)
Slovak
3 entries- sa pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
- seba pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
- sám pron ((emphatic, exclusive) he)
Spanish
3 entries- sí mismo pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
- él mismo pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
- él mismo pron ((emphatic, exclusive) he)
Swedish
1 entries- sig pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
Talysh
1 entries- اشتن pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
Tuvan
1 entries- боду pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
Ukrainian
1 entries- він сам pron ((emphatic, exclusive) he)
Volapük
1 entries- oki pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
Welsh
2 entries- ei hun pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
- ei hunan pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
Yakut
1 entries- бэйэтэ pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
Zazaki
2 entries- ay pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
- eyeri pron ((reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object)
Sample sentences
21 total sentences available.
The seven questions that an engineer has to ask himself are: who, what, when, where, why, how and how much.
Source: tatoeba (2209)
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
Source: tatoeba (2293)
Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or a picture or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Source: tatoeba (2477)
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