Selbst — meaning in English
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English meaning
- alone adj By oneself, without other people present.
- itself pron Used to refer back to a thing that is both the subject and the object of the same action.
- myself pron Used as the object of a verb or preposition when the speaker is also the subject.
- self noun A person's own individual character, personality, or identity.
Senses
Selbst is used for these senses in English:
- alone Without outside help.
- by oneself Unaided; without assistance or help from others.
- myself Personally, for my part; used in apposition to I, sometimes for simple emphasis and sometimes with implicit exclusion of any others performing the activity described. [from 10th c.]
- not even Introduces or constitutes a more emphatic negation or exclusion than "not".
- oneself A person's self: general form of himself, herself, themself or yourself.
- self An individual person as the object of the person's own reflective consciousness (plural selves).
alone — full definition
- adj By oneself, without other people present.
- adv Used after a noun to mean "only" or "exclusively" that thing.
itself — full definition
- pron Used to refer back to a thing that is both the subject and the object of the same action.
- pron Used for emphasis, to stress that something acted alone or that a quality applies purely to the thing named.