Illustration: In a neighborhood udon restaurant, a customer with a meal tray stops at a shared water station. They take a clean cup from a stack, press the dispenser lever themselves, and watch the cup fill. Their tray already holds noodles and a small side dish.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

セルフ

serufu

self-service

Short for セルフサービス. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. これはセルフうどん店てんの普及率ふきゅうりつの高たかさに見みられる様ように「食事しょくじは素早すばやく提供ていきょうされて、手早てばやく食たべられれば良よい」と考かんがえる、いわゆる「食しょくに短気たんきな県民けんみん」が大半たいはんだからである。

    This is because most of them are, as we say, 'short tempered about food' and think 'the sooner the food is served and eaten, the better it is' as seen in the popularity of the self-service udon shops.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. この店みせでは、お水みずはセルフです。

    At this restaurant, you help yourself to water.

    Written by AI for Bebop

  3. ここのガソリンスタンドはセルフです。

    This gas station is self-service.

    Written by AI for Bebop

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