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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.
  • oneself pronoun The reflexive form of the pronoun one, used to refer back to a person in general statements about people.
  • 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

  1. adj By oneself, without other people present.
  2. adv Used after a noun to mean "only" or "exclusively" that thing.

itself — full definition

  1. pron Used to refer back to a thing that is both the subject and the object of the same action.
  2. pron Used for emphasis, to stress that something acted alone or that a quality applies purely to the thing named.
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