自助餐廳是一種自助式的餐廳。

A cafeteria is a self-service style restaurant.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 自助餐 zìzhùcān
  1. buffet
  2. self-service meal
2 廳 tīng
  1. (reception) hall
  2. living room
  3. office
  4. provincial government department
=3 是 shì
  1. to be (followed by substantives only)
  2. correct; right; true
  3. (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well
  4. (adverb for emphatic assertion)
=3 是 shì variant of 是 shì
4 一種 yīzhǒng one kind of; one type of
5 自助 zìzhù self-service
6 式 shì
  1. type
  2. form
  3. pattern
  4. style
=7 的 de
  1. of; ~'s (possessive particle)
  2. (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)
  3. (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
  4. (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 pígéde "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的 pǎotángrde "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 xīnde "new one")
  5. also pr. dì or di in poetry and songs
=7 的 dī a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 dīshì)
=7 的 dí really and truly
=7 的 dì (bound form) bull's-eye; target
8 餐廳 cāntīng
  1. dining hall
  2. dining room
  3. restaurant

classifiers: 間, 家