How to say "locker" in Japanese
- nounThe standard word for a locker: a metal compartment with a door, locked with a coin or key, as at a station, gym, pool, school, or workplace. This is the word you want.
- 戸棚とだなnounReally means a cupboard, cabinet, or closet for storing household things; its gloss 'locker' is marginal, so it is seldom the word you want for a locker in the ロッカー sense.この本は戸棚の上です。↗This book goes on the top shelf.
Use 「ロッカー」 for lockable coin/gymschool-style lockers; 戸棚 is really a cupboard or shelf unit and only marginally means locker, so it is rarely the word you want for a locker.
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