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însuți
yourself (emphatic, addressing one male or a person of unspecified gender) /ɨnˈsuts/
adjective#4256 most common
Also: you in person, your own self
Example sentences
Tu însuți știi răspunsul.
You yourself know the answer.
Poți să faci asta tu însuți.
You can do this yourself.
Ai spus-o chiar tu însuți, nu eu.
You said it yourself, not me.
De ce nu încerci tu însuți să rezolvi problema?
Why don't you try to solve the problem yourself?
Trebuie să te convingi tu însuți de adevărul acestor cuvinte.
You must convince yourself of the truth of these words.
Dacă nu ai încredere în ceilalți, verifică tu însuți datele înainte de a le publica.
If you do not trust others, check the data yourself before publishing it.
Word family
însumimyself (emphatic, 1st person singular)însușihimself/itself (emphatic, 3rd person singular)
înșineourselves (emphatic, 1st person plural)
înșivăyourselves (emphatic, 2nd person plural)
înșișithemselves (emphatic, 3rd person plural masculine)
Etymology
Însuți is one of a set of Romanian emphatic pronouns, along with însumi, însuși, înșine, înșivă and înșiși, each tied to a specific person, number and gender. They formed in spoken Latin by fusing ipse, meaning self, with the dative clitic pronoun of the matching person. For the second person singular that clitic was tibi, to you, which gives the ending -ți. The same pattern produced însumi from mihi and însuși from sibi.
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