Definition of itself in English Dictionary

• 代名詞 (Pronoun)SUF-self+-
  1. (reflexive) it; A thing as the object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject.
     1. The door closed by itself
  2. (emphatic) it; used to intensify the subject, especially to emphasize that it is the only participant in the predicate.
     1. The door itself is quite heavy.
• より多くの例
  1. 文の途中で使用される
     • Although eggcrate louvers can effectively cut off the view of bright lamps, the grid itself can become rather bright, especially when it is white.
     • It’s a lovely sequence cut too short because the show seems afraid to give itself over to romance and whimsy and wistfulness when it has wedgie jokes to deliver.
     • The firm is defending itself against fresh allegations of pensions mis-selling.
  2. 文の終わに使われる
     • Like a daruma doll, you knock it over and it rights itself.
     • At the other extreme, last year's Mordecai Richler: Leaving St. Urbain by Reinhold Kramer focused (rather overearnestly) on Richler's writing itself.
     • Bart Simpson's stock phrase "I didn't do it" was once lampooned on the show itself.

• 品詞階層 (Part-of-Speech Hierarchy)
  1. 代名詞
     • 三人称代名詞

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類似の単語 (Look-Alike Words)

1. en atself
2. en it self
3. en hitself
4. en ittself
5. en himself