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自称

self-proclaimed; self-professed; self-styled; would-be

N5Common wordPre-noun adjectival
Pre-noun adjectival
self-proclaimedself-professedself-styledwould-be
Noun, Suru verb
professing oneself to becalling oneselfdescribing oneself as
Noun
first person

Example Sentences

(かれ)は財政の専門家であると自称した。

He claimed to be an expert in finance.

本物のノイローゼの(やつ)がノイローゼだなんて自称するのかね?

Do you think real neurotics really go and call themselves such?

それからまもなく幾人かの測量士と自称する変な服装をした人たちが集落にやってきて、祖母の小屋の(まえ)を測っていきました。

Pretty soon along came to the village some strangely dressed people who called themselves surveyors; and they surveyed a line in front of my grandmother's little house.