itself meaning
EN


- PronounSUF-self
- (reflexive) it; A thing as the object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject.
- The door closed by itself
- (emphatic) it; used to intensify the subject, especially to emphasize that it is the only participant in the predicate.
- The door itself is quite heavy.
- (reflexive) it; A thing as the object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Once again, the industry got itself in trouble and government had to bail it out.
- Nature 'publishes itself in creatures, reaching from particles and spicula, through transformation on transformation to the highest symmetries.
- The most intriguing evidence is right next to Stonehenge itself — three big post holes that held tall totemlike timber poles.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- I looked at a reference manual for my car just to answer one question, but I spent the whole afternoon with my nose buried in it, just yak shaving, and got no work done on the car itself.
- Its relief scene includes 11 cupids harvesting and stomping on grapes to make wine in a lenos, a long trough similar to the sarcophagus itself.
- Like a daruma doll, you knock it over and it rights itself.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of itself in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Pronouns
- Third person pronouns
- Third person pronouns
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Source: Wiktionary