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Narrator: Today's word is "Yourself" — pronoun, pronounced /jɔːˈself/, with the stress on "self".
Narrator: Yourself is the reflexive pronoun for one person when the action returns to you, as in "help yourself".
Narrator: In plain English, it means you and no one else.
Narrator: It joins your with self.
Narrator: A common collocation is "help yourself", which invites someone to take food or drink.
Narrator: It differs from "yourselves", because yourself is for one person and yourselves for many.
Narrator: In a second sense, "by yourself" means alone or without help.
Narrator: Grammar, hospitality, advice and self-care all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: yourself turns the action back to you.
Speaker A: Did you build that shed?
Speaker B: Did you do it YOURSELF? It's your plus self.
Speaker A: No help?
Speaker B: Just a YouTube video.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "Help yourself to biscuits", hospitality. "Take care of yourself", goodbyes. "Did you do it by yourself?", independence.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Do not say "yourself and Tom are invited"; use "you and Tom".
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Yourselves is its cousin, oneself its twin, and you alone an alternative — yet yourself keeps its personal charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "yourself" in AI prompts — useful for wellbeing apps and grammar help.
Speaker A: How for wellbeing?
Speaker B: Self-care.
Prompt: Write five gentle reminders to look after yourself during exams.
Speaker A: And grammar?
Speaker B: Correct misuse.
Prompt: Fix sentences where yourself is used instead of you in this email.
Speaker A: Could it help onboarding?
Speaker B: Yes, for profiles.
Prompt: Write a prompt asking new users to tell us a little about yourself.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Interviews.
Prompt: Suggest a strong answer to tell me about yourself for a graduate job.
Yourself — meaning in Arabic & definition More Y courses GL Dictionary