Try as you might, but you cannot force a belief onto someone else, much less your own self.
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Self
//sɛlf//
Synonyms for "self" (112 found)
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Closest matches (23)
Strong matches (33)
ego idealego-id conflictethical selfforeconsciousheheartherherselfhimhimselfhustlerii myselfidinner maninner selfitjivajivatmakhu
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Adjective(2 words)
Prefix(1 words)
Related words (56)
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7 entriesAntonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
3 entriesdefined as
1 entriesderived
47 entriesShowing 16 of 47 words.
has context
4 entriesis a
5 entriesreceives action
1 entriesrelated to
26 entriesShowing 16 of 26 words.
Translations
86 translations across 67 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- vetvetja noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Arabic
2 entries- نفس noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
- نَفْس noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- öz noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Baluchi
1 entries- وت noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Belarusian
1 entries- сам noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Bengali
1 entries- খোদ noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Bhojpuri
1 entries- खुद noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Bikol Central
1 entries- sadiri noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- خۆ noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 自己 noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 自己 noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
- 自我 noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Crimean Tatar
1 entries- özü noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Danish
1 entries- selv noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Dutch
1 entries- zelf noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Finnish
1 entries- itse noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
French
1 entries- soi noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
German
1 entries- Selbst noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Greek
1 entries- εαυτός noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Hawaiian
1 entries- ponoʻī noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Hebrew
1 entries- עֶצֶם noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Hindi
4 entries- ख़ुद noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
- खुद noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
- ज़ात noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
- नफ्स noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Hungarian
1 entries- önvaló noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Ido
1 entries- ipsa noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Indonesian
1 entries- sendiri noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Irish
1 entries- féin noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Italian
1 entries- stesso noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Japanese
3 entries- 自己 noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
- 自我 noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
- 自身 noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Javanese
1 entries- dhéwé noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Kazakh
1 entries- өз noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Khakas
1 entries- пос noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Korean
2 entries- 자기자신 noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
- 자신 noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Laki
1 entries- وِژ noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Latin
1 entries- idem noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Latvian
1 entries- patība noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Lithuanian
2 entries- pati noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
- pats noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Macedonian
1 entries- себство noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Manchu
1 entries- ᠪᡝᠶ᠋ᡝ noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Marathi
1 entries- स्वतः noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Māori
1 entries- whaiaro noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- xwe noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Norwegian
1 entries- selv noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- sjølv noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Persian
1 entries- خود noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Portuguese
1 entries- si-próprio noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Russian
3 entries- сам noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
- себя́ noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
- собо́й noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Sanskrit
2 entries- आत्मन् noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
- स्वयं noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- sebstvo noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Southern Altai
1 entries- ӧс noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Southern Kurdish
1 entries- خوە noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Spanish
3 entries- ser noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
- uno mismo noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
- yo noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Swahili
1 entries- enyewe noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Swedish
1 entries- själv noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Tagalog
1 entries- sarili noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Thai
3 entries- ตน noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
- ตัวตน noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
- อัตตา noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Tibetan
1 entries- རང་ཉིད noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Tocharian A
1 entries- āñcäm noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Tocharian B
1 entries- āñme noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Turkish
2 entries- kendi noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
- öz noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Tuvan
1 entries- бот noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Ukrainian
1 entries- сам noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Urdu
1 entries- خود noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Vietnamese
1 entries- bản thân noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Welsh
1 entries- hunan noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
West-Frisian
1 entries- sels noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Wu Chinese
1 entries- 自家 noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Yakut
1 entries- бэйэ noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Zazaki
2 entries- ho (diq) noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
- xo (diq) noun (individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness)
Sample sentences
29 total sentences available.
Be so true to thy Self, as thou be not false to others.
Source: tatoeba (280816)
He is his usual self.
Source: tatoeba (300857)
He doesn't seem to know his real self.
Source: tatoeba (303831)
Showing 4 of 29 available sentences.
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