shelf

étagère, tablette

Planche horizontale sur laquelle on pose des livres ou d’autres objets.

En anglais simple : A flat board where you put books or other objects.

• Put the book on the shelf.
• We fitted two shelves in the kitchen.
• Can you reach the top shelf?

Comment l'utiliser : on a shelf (The cups are on a shelf above the sink.)

Expressions courantes : top shelf, on a shelf, shelf of something, bottom shelf

étagère pleine

Quantité d’objets qui remplit une tablette entière.

En anglais simple : An amount of things that fills one flat storage board.

• She bought a shelf of books.
• We packed three shelves of videos into boxes.
• He cleared out a whole shelf of old magazines.

Comment l'utiliser : a shelf of something (We donated a shelf of books to the school.)

Synonymes : shelfful

Expressions courantes : shelf of books, shelf of videos, whole shelf of