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French supermarket checkout vocabulary: what goes where?
Explore ten checkout objects in French and learn where purchases, bags and payment go, with a short checkout text and four practical questions.
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In short
At the checkout, le tapis roulant carries your purchases, le terminal de paiement takes your card payment and le ticket de caisse is the receipt. Put items sur le tapis and pack them dans le sac. Explore the objects, then decide what goes where.
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| What | French phrase | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Purchases | sur le tapis roulant | on the conveyor belt |
| Card payment | sur le terminal | on the card terminal |
| Cash | à la caissière | to the cashier |
| Packed purchases | dans le sac | inside the bag |
À la caisse
Nora arrive à la caisse avec son panier. Elle pose ses achats sur le tapis roulant, puis ajoute la barre de séparation. La caissière passe les articles devant le lecteur. Nora ouvre son sac réutilisable dans la zone d’emballage. « Vous payez comment ? » demande la caissière. « Par carte, s’il vous plaît. » Nora approche sa carte du terminal. Elle range ensuite le pain et le lait dans son sac et prend son ticket de caisse.
Nora arrives at the checkout with her basket. She puts her purchases on the conveyor belt, then adds the divider. The cashier passes the items in front of the scanner. Nora opens her reusable bag in the bagging area. “How are you paying?” asks the cashier. “By card, please.” Nora holds her card near the terminal. She then packs the bread and milk in her bag and takes her receipt.
achats: purchases; ticket de caisse: receipt.
La caisse can mean the checkout or the till. Les pièces here means coins; a banknote is un billet. For payment, use par carte or en espèces (in cash). A receipt is un ticket de caisse; une recette is a recipe.