ourselves

English - Turkish

Definition of ourselves in English Turkish dictionary

{z} çoğ. kendimiz, bizler: We ourselves will help. Biz kendimiz yardım edeceğiz

Biz kendimize yardım edeceğiz

Biz kendimiz yardım edeceğiz

kendimiz

Kendimizi temiz tutmalıyız. - We should keep ourselves clean.

Kendimize bakmalıyız. - We must take care of ourselves.

biz

Biz kendi aramızda anlaştık. - We agreed among ourselves.

Biz bütün gün deniz kenarında eğlendik. - We enjoyed ourselves at the seaside all day.

özümüz

{i} bizler

Bizler onun seviyesine iniyoruz. - We're lowering ourselves to his level.

{i} kendimizi

Kendimizi birbirimize tanıttık. - We introduced ourselves to each other.

Çarpışma için kendimizi hazırladık. - We prepared ourselves for the crash.

{i} kendimize

Kendimize bakmalıyız. - We need to take care of ourselves.

Kendimize bakmalıyız. - We must take care of ourselves.

Related Terms

by ourselves

yalnız

by ourselves

tek başımıza

introducing ourselves

kendimizi tanıtmak

can we settle the matter between ourselves

bu sorunu kendi aramızda çözebilir miyiz

English - English

Definition of ourselves in English English dictionary

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.

we; intensifies the subject as the group including the speaker, especially to indicate that no one else satisfies the predicate

We did it ourselves.

{p} recip, we, not any other persons

Ourself (&?;)

A speaker or writer sometimes uses ourselves to refer to people in general. Ourselves is used as the object of a verb or preposition when the subject refers to the same people. We all know that when we exert ourselves our heart rate increases

emphasis You use ourselves to emphasize a first person plural subject. In more formal English, ourselves is sometimes used instead of `us' as the object of a verb or preposition, for emphasis. Others are feeling just the way we ourselves would feel in the same situation The people who will suffer won't be people like ourselves

An emphasized form of the pronoun of the first person plural; used as a subject, usually with we; also, alone in the predicate, in the nominative or the objective case

{i} our own persons; to our own persons; by our own persons; us; by us

sing

Ourselves is the first person plural reflexive pronoun

You use ourselves to refer to yourself and one or more other people as a group. We sat round the fire to keep ourselves warm It was the first time we admitted to ourselves that we were tired

If you say something such as `We did it ourselves', you are indicating that something was done by you and a particular group of other people, rather than anyone else. We villagers built that ourselves, we had no help from anyone

usself

Related Terms

between ourselves

between the two of us, involving only the two of us, just for you and me to know (as of a secret)

keep it to ourselves

keep a secret, not reveal to others

Hyphenation

our·selves

Turkish pronunciation

auırselvz

Pronunciation

/ouərˈselvz/ /aʊɜrˈsɛlvz/

Videos

... So we believe you can't wait to show how we're going to impose that discipline on ourselves ...

... on the potential damage we may be doing to ourselves ...