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📖 Определения и значения для слова themselves

📒 used when people or animals performing an action are also affected by it

  • They seemed to be enjoying themselves.
  • The children were arguing amongst themselves.
  • They've bought themselves a new car.

📒 used instead of himself or herself to refer to a person whose sex is not mentioned or not known

  • There wasn't anyone who hadn't enjoyed themselves.

📒 used to emphasize they or a plural subject

  • They themselves had had a similar experience.
  • Don and Julie paid for it themselves.

📒 alone; without anyone else

  • They wanted to spend the evening by themselves.

📒 without help

  • They did the cooking by themselves.

📒 for only them to have or use; not shared with others

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