how to pronounce themselves

/ðɛmˈsɛlvz/

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themselves is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… that the people themselves engaging in …”

meanings of themselves

pronoun:

The reflexive case of they, the third-person singular personal pronoun. The single person previously mentioned, as the object of a verb or following a preposition (also used for emphasis).
The reflexive case of they, the third-person plural personal pronoun. The group of people, animals, or objects previously mentioned, as the object of a verb or following a preposition (also used for emphasis).

themselves frequency in english - A1 level of CEFR

the word themselves occurs in english on average 179 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 themselves 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 themselves can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;