English Translation
You must do it for yourself.
自分で: is this “by yourself” rather than “for yourself”?
@Terence
You are correct.
自分でする means “do it yourself without help from others.”
“Do it for yourself” means 自分のためにする (i.e. It’s not sacrificing yourself but doing it would eventually benefit yourself.)
FYI: the English-Japanese pair was imported from Tanaka Corpus, English sentences in which were picked up by a linguistic data scientist professor Tanaka and assigned to his university students for translation. It’s a shame but Japanese education institutions across the country at that time always mixed up the meaning of “by yourself” with “for yourself” and taught the mistranslation to their students…
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