how to pronounce itself

/ˌɪtˈsɛlf/

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itself is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of itself in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… well as the team itself and when i say …”

meanings of itself

pronoun:

It; A thing as the object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject.
It; used to intensify the subject, especially to emphasize that it is the only participant in the predicate The door itself is quite heavy.
It; used to refer back to an earlier subject.

itself frequency in english - A1 level of CEFR

the word itself occurs in english on average 161.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics itself can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that itself can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;