selfie – English noun declension

English noun forms of selfie

Noun: selfie
Singularselfie
Pluralselfies

Sample Sentences

  • take a selfie
  • Um, drunk at a mates^([sic]) 21st, I tripped ofer^([sic]) and landed lip first (with front teeth coming a very close second) on a set of steps. I had a hole about 1cm long right through my bottom lip. And sorry about the focus, it was a selfie. [2002 September 13, N. "Hopey" Hope, “re: Dissolvable stitches”, in ABC Online Forum, archived from the original on 23 Nov 2013:]
  • Pre. Nice rooftop selfie. […] No Hair. Another nice rooftop selfie. [2004 October 21, Brian McGuirk, “bmcguirk's photos.”, in Flickr, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2004:]
  • That's not to imply that it's "wrong" for your arm or hand to show up in a selfie. [2005, Jim Krause, Photo Idea Index, HOW Books, published 2005, →ISBN, page 148:]
  • The Mars Rover Takes A Selfie [title] [2012 December 27, Andrew Prince, “The Mars Rover Takes A Selfie”, in National Public Radio, archived from the original on 14 Sep 2015:]
  • Barack Obama was talking to David Cameron and with the Danish Prime Minister, and that’s when she actually reached into her purse and brought out a cell phone and stretched her arms and did a selfie with them. [2013 December 13, Brooke Gladstone, quoting Roberto Schmidt, “The Photographer Behind ‘Selfie-Gate’”, On the Media”, in National Public Radio, archived from the original on 01 Jan 2026:]
  • I shall take this photograph myself. This must be what they call a selfie. [2017 August 8, “Say Cheese”, in Lily's Driftwood Bay, season 2, episode 2, spoken by Lord Stag (Stephen Fry):]
  • Don't take it the wrong way / I can never keep up / Sick of liking your selfies [2018, “She Works Out Too Much”, in Little Dark Age, performed by MGMT:]
  • Nothing is visible until the selfie is taken, which is half the fun. […] Posting the selfies on Instagram, where limbs are noodly or eyes are buggy, is meant to be silly, making it seem like the photographers take themselves — and social media — less seriously. [2022 July 3, Kalley Huang, “The Rise of the 0.5 Selfie”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2025:]

Etymology

From self + -ie. Attested since 2002, originally Australian English.

Verbs referencing "selfie"

Danish Nouns selfie, Dutch Nouns selfie, Finnish Nouns selfie, French Nouns selfie, Italian Nouns selfie, Irish Nouns féinín, Russian Nouns себяшка, German Nouns Selfie.