Meaning

3 senses
  1. (feminine, personal, pronoun, reflexive, singular, third person)Her; the feminine object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject.

    Sandra injured herself.

    The United States is causing problems for herself with this policy.

  2. (emphatic, feminine, personal, pronoun, singular, third person)She; an intensifier of the female subject or object, often used to indicate the directness or exclusiveness of that person .

    She was injured herself.

    sie selbst

    сама́samá

    вона́ сама́voná samá

  3. (Ireland, feminine, personal, pronoun, singular, third person)The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; she (used of upper-class ladies, or sarcastically, of women who imagine themselves to be more important than others)

    What's herself up to this time?

    Have you seen herself yet this morning?

    sich

    себя́sebjá

Examples

5453 sentences
  1. She can't have written it herself.

    Вона не могла це власноруч написати.

    ruОна не могла это сама написать.

    deSie kann es nicht selbst geschrieben haben.

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  2. She did it all by herself.

    Вона все зробила сама.

    deSie hat es ganz alleine gemacht.

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  3. She enjoyed herself at the concert.

    Вона отримала задоволення від відвідування концерту.

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  4. She saw herself in the mirror.

    Вона побачила себе у дзеркалі.

    ruОна увидела себя в зеркале.

    deSie sah sich im Spiegel.

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  5. She laid herself on the grass.

    Вона лягла на траву.

    ruОна легла на траву.

    deSie legte sich auf das Gras.

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Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
(as intensifier) she:
Русский
By meaning 2
(as intensifier) she:
(reflexive object) her:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
(as intensifier) she:
(reflexive object) her:

Origin

From Middle English. Equivalent to her + -self.

From Middle English. Equivalent to her + -self.

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