our normal selves, as in "After a vacation we are back to ourselves"
pronoun
used to add emphasis to the pronoun "we," as in "We did it all by ourselves" or "We ourselves are the cast for the school play"
pronoun
reflexive form of the pronoun "we," after a verb or preposition referring to the speaker and others, as in "We went to the mall"
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