Illustration: During a busy lunch service at a small Japanese cafeteria, three workers pass a complete meal tray from the kitchen to a waiting customer in one coordinated movement. The cook slides it forward, the server receives it with both hands, and the customer already has a clear place to set it down.

JLPT N2na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

スムーズ

sumuuzu

smooth, trouble-free

Example sentences

  1. いつもなかなか開ひらかないドアが、今日きょうはスムーズに開ひらいた。

    The door that usually never quite opens easily opened smoothly today.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 仲介役ちゅうかいやくがしっかりしていると取とり引ひきがスムーズに行いく。

    A good mediator can make a deal go smoothly.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. ただし、原料げんりょうの調達ちょうたつはスムーズではなかった。

    However, the procurement of ingredients was not easy.

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

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