EGAVE

myself

About 73.80 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. pronoun Me, as direct or indirect object the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition, when the speaker is also the subject. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
    I taught myself.
  2. pronoun 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.
    I myself have witnessed the event.
  3. pronoun In my normal state of body or mind.
    I feel like myself.
  4. pronoun Me, as the object of a verb or preposition without a reflexive trigger. Sometimes used for intensifying the pronoun of oneself.
    Give the ball to John or myself.
  5. pronoun I (as the subject of a verb).
    My wife and myself want to go on vacation.
  6. pronoun my name is...
    Myself John.

Similar words

alone ben either even fell first-hand got himself mine mistook

Often followed by

to in and with that as a for from

Word family

be myself

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