themselves

Pron

• The reflexive case of they, the third-person plural personal pronoun. The group of people, animals, or objects previously mentioned, as the object of a verb or following a preposition (also used for emphasis).
• The reflexive case of they, the third-person singular personal pronoun. The single person previously mentioned, as the object of a verb or following a preposition (also used for emphasis).

Examples

• Everyone must do it themselves.
• I don't want anyone to fight among themselves.
• They are going to try climbing Mount Everest themselves.
• They fought among themselves.
• They’ve hurt themselves.
• Would whoever stole my phone please make themselves known.

Synonyms

'emselves, herself, himself, theirself, theirselves, themself

Related Words

'em, Ime, The following table shows a list of English personal pronoun, all 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., he, her, herselfhersen, hershern, him, himselfhisselfhissen, his, hishisn, including archaic and dialectal forms. Dialectal and obsolete, ithit, itselfhitself, itshis, itshishits, me, mine, mymineme, myselfmemysen, one, one's, oneself, our, ourselvesourselfoursen, oursourn, she, thee, their, theirs, theirstheirn, them, themhem, themself, themselvestheirsen, they, thine, thou, thyselftheeselfthysen, thythine, us, we, y'allselves, you, you ally'all you guys, your, yourselfyoursen, yourselves, yoursyourn, youye, –