How to Say "Themselves" in Italian

loro stessi

The English pronoun 'themselves' is translated into Italian as loro stessi.

This phrase is used as the reflexive form of the third-person plural personal pronoun.

Meaning: the reflexive case of they, the third-person plural personal pronoun (pron)

How does it change in a sentence?

The phrase must agree in gender with the subject. Use loro stesse if the group being referred to is entirely female.

While loro stessi is used for emphasis, the standard reflexive pronoun for 'themselves' is often just si. This can create ambiguity because si also means 'himself' or 'herself'.
While loro stessi is the standard reflexive form, if you want to emphasize that they did something 'by themselves' without help, you often use the phrase da soli instead.
In Italian, the word loro is a 'double agent' because it can function as both a possessive adjective meaning 'their' and a personal pronoun meaning 'them'.

Votarono per loro stessi.
They voted for themselves.
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Possono farlo loro stessi.
They may do that themselves.
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Fecero il lavoro loro stessi.
They did the work themselves.
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Loro stessi sono responsabili delle loro azioni.
They themselves are responsible for their actions.
Ognuno deve prendersi cura di se stesso.
Everyone must take care of themselves.
Loro sanno gestirsi da soli.
They know how to handle themselves.
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Matteo and Giulia are talking about their friends who are renovating a house.

Matteo

I tuoi amici hanno assunto degli operai?
Did your friends hire some workers?
Giulia

No, hanno deciso di dipingere loro stessi.
No, they decided to paint it themselves.
Matteo

È un lavoro molto faticoso!
That is a very tiring job!
Giulia

Sì, ma volevano fare tutto loro stessi.
Yes, but they wanted to do everything themselves.

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