kantine

English translation: cafeteria

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Norwegian term or phrase:	kantine
English translation:	cafeteria
Entered by:	Even Eifring

12:58 Mar 18, 2002

Norwegian to English translations [Non-PRO]

Norwegian term or phrase: kantine

Norway's biggest hospital, Ullevaal University Hospital, has several places where food is served at reasonable prices. In some places dinner is served, but not in all. Some of them are visited mostly by employees of the hospital, but the biggest one is visited by all kinds of people: employees, patients, visitors and passers-by. The biggest and second biggest ones serve dinner as well as grilled food.

What is the best English word for all these places?

Even Eifring KudoZ activity Questions: 33 (2 open) (1 without valid answers) Answers: 94
Local time: 10:22

cafeteria

Explanation:
I guess you could use Hospital Cafeteria or Canteen

Just remembering Cafeteria is a place where food is not served by waiters or waitresses. More like self-service

I hope it helps.

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Note added at 2002-03-18 14:06:51 (GMT)
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no actually I think canteen is mostly used for a shop and the vicinity of a shop where not only food but basic items (toilet paper, cigarette, etc) are sold to masses of people staying at that place (can be hospital, prison, factory, barracks etc)... I think Cafeteria is used mostly for places where self-service food is offered/consumed.

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Note added at 2002-03-18 14:13:11 (GMT)
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Well at least in my language, Turkish,
Kantin = food + basic items, its like a convenient store
Kafeterya= Place (with tables + chairs) where self-service food is available

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Note added at 2002-03-18 14:13:39 (GMT)
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also the schools have Canteens as well

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Gaye Terzioglu-Booth
Australia
Local time: 18:22

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cafeteria

Gaye Terzioglu-Booth
Australia
Local time: 18:22
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