Focus on the pronunciation of themselves
English definition of “themselves”
/ðemˈselvz/, /ðəm-/ pronoun [pl]
› the people being spoken about, the reflexive form of they: The girls made themselves sandwiches for lunch. › Themselves is sometimes used to emphasize the subject or object of a sentence: The police themselves apologized for overreacting. (all) by themselves › If people do something (all) by themselves, they do it alone or without help from anyone: The children set up the tent all by themselves. They were left by themselves. to themselves › If people have something to themselves, they have it for their own use only: When their youngest child went off to college, they had the whole house to themselves.