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These pronouns have two primary roles, (1) as reflexives (He was talking about himself / Mary was looking at herself in the mirror / He made himself a cup of coffee), and (2) as emphatic words in apposition to a noun or pronoun (The supervisor herself called / The lock itself is still working). Himself is still used as a gender-neutral pronoun despite the weakening of this role with the simple pronoun he, probably because the alternatives available for he are more complex when applied to himself:

None of us was willing to commit himself to a clear-cut opinion—R. Linder, 1955

In this way the casual viewer...is liable to come away with the impression that here is an anti-Semite attempting to denazify himself—Daily Telegraph, 1970

This problem faced by the teacher who sees himself as deliverer of prepacked information is admirably expressed by Caldwell Cook—H. Pluckrose, 1987

The investigator himself may not know whether these effects have occurred—A. Ashworth, 1992.

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IN BRIEF: Reflexive pronoun indicating possession or belonging by or to a female.

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. — Charles de Gaulle

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See words rhyming with "herself."

Dansk (Danish)
pron. - hun selv, hende selv, sig, sig selv

Nederlands (Dutch)
zich, zichzelf, haarzelf, zelf

Français (French)
pron. - se, s', elle-même, elle/elle-même (après une préposition), toute seule, (ne pas être) dans son assiette

Deutsch (German)
pron. - sich, sich selbst, selbst

Ελληνική (Greek)
pron. - αυτή η ίδια, αυτή καθαυτήν, εαυτός της, την ίδια

Italiano (Italian)
se stessa, se stesso, si, sé, stesso

Português (Portuguese)
pron. - ela mesma, a si mesma

Русский (Russian)
себя (ж.р.), себе (ж.р.), самой

Español (Spanish)
pron. - se, a sí misma, se .. a sí mismo, ella misma, en persona

Svenska (Swedish)
pron. - sig, sig själv, hon själv

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
她自己, 她亲自

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
pron. - 她自己, 她親自

한국어 (Korean)
pron. - 그녀 자신을(에게), 그녀 스스로, 그녀 본래의 상태

日本語 (Japanese)
pron. - 自分自身を, 自分で

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(ضمير) نفسها, حالتها السويه أو الحقيقه أو المعافاة صحيا وعقليا‏

עברית (Hebrew)
pron. - ‮מעצמה, בעצמה, לעצמה, כעצמה‬

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