Meanings (ES + gloss)
ellas • elle • elles • ellos • se
A single person, previously mentioned, whose gender is unknown, irrelevant, or (since 20th c.) non-binary.
Somebody requested a seat at Friday's performance but didn't say if they preferred the balcony or the floor.
Who says they care? —He himself does.
se • una • uno
People; some people; people in general; someone, excluding the speaker.
They didn’t have computers in the old days.
They say it’s a good place to live.
Phrases
as they comeas they saygeneric theyif pigs had wings they would flyit doesn't matter what they say about you as long as they spell your name rightlet the chips fall where they maylet the dice fall where they maythat's why they play the gamethey hate us 'cause they ain't usthey hit the Pentagonthey saythey-unstheyfriendwill-they-won't-they
Meanings (ES + gloss)
en sí • mismo • sí mismo
it; used to intensify the subject, especially to emphasize that it is the only participant in the predicate
So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to conver…
The door itself is quite heavy.
Phrases
a house divided against itself cannot standbeing-for-itselfbeing-in-itselfdense-in-itselfend in itselfhistory repeats itselfin and of itselfin itselfin-itselfnesslend itself toof itselfpay for itselfrepeat itselfsimplicity itselfsuggest itselfthe trash takes itself outthing in itselfthing-in-itselfunto itselfwrite itself
Meanings (ES + gloss)
sí mismo • él mismo
Him; the male object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject
He injured himself.
Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his fac…
él mismo
He; used as an intensifier, often to emphasize that the referent is the exclusive participant in the predicate
He was injured himself.
The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science…
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
ella misma
She; an intensifier of the female subject or object, often used to indicate the directness or exclusiveness of that person .
She was injured herself.
ella misma • se • sí misma
The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; she (used of upper-class ladies, or sarcastically, of women who imagine themselves to be more important than others)
Have you seen herself yet this morning?
What's herself up to this time?
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