You should get yourselves something more challenging to do.
Did you enjoy yourselves?
Buy yourselves something nice.
Try not to talk about yourselves so much.
Be honest with yourselves.
2.
used to emphasize that the people one is speaking to did something alone, rather than anyone else
Did you do it yourselves?
Did you make it yourselves?
3.
used as an intensifier to emphasize that one means 'you'
You and Annie could have a bit of a rest yourselves.
Do you yourselves know why she came?
4.
used instead of 'you' for emphasis or in order to be more polite when 'you' is the object of a verb or preposition
I wouldn't want to cause such important people as yourselves any bother.
How are yourselves?
5. by yourselves
English Easy Learning GrammarReflexive pronounsReflexive pronouns are used: person singular plural 1st2nd3rd masculine3rd feminine3rd neuterGeneral myselfyourselfhimselfherselfitselfoneselfourselvesyourselvesthemselvesthemselvesthemselves ... Read more
Examples of 'yourselves' in a sentence
yourselves
You have ten years to prove yourselves.
Christianity Today (2000)
True love needs you to be true to yourselves.
The Sun (2016)
If you are cold, come and take a seat by the fire and warm yourselves.
The Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales (1812)
Do it for yourselves, was the message.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
But there are lots of self-help steps you can take to give yourselves the best chance.
The Sun (2015)
You're doing it for yourselves, for your family.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
In other languages
yourselves
British English: yourselves /jɔːˈsɛlvz/ PRONOUN
A speaker or writer uses yourselves to refer to the people that they are talking or writing to. Yourselves is used when the object of a verb or preposition refers to the same people as the subject of the verb.
Treat yourselves to an ice cream.
American English: yourselves
Arabic: أَنْفُسِكُم
Brazilian Portuguese: vocês mesmos
Chinese: 你们自己
Croatian: sebe
Czech: sami
Danish: jer selv
Dutch: jezelf
European Spanish: os
Finnish: te itse
French: vous-mêmes
German: ihr selbst
Greek: εσείς οι ίδιοι
Italian: voi stessi
Japanese: あなた方自身
Korean: 여러분 자신
Norwegian: dere selv
Polish: siebie
European Portuguese: vocês mesmos
Romanian: înșivă
Russian: себя
Latin American Spanish: ustedes mismos
Swedish: er själva
Thai: ตัวท่านเอง
Turkish: kendinizi
Ukrainian: себе
Vietnamese: chính các bạn
Chinese translation of 'yourselves'
yourselves
(jɔːˈsɛlvz)
pl pron
你们(們)自己 (nǐmen zìjǐ)
⇒ Have you hurt yourselves?你们伤到自己了吗？ (Nǐmen shāng dào zìjǐ le ma?)
⇒ Did you paint the house yourselves?你们自己粉刷了房子? (Nǐmen zìjǐ fěnshuāle fángzi?)