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Valise, bagage or sac: French luggage vocabulary in pictures
Name suitcases, backpacks and travel bags in French. Learn luggage as a countable category, packing expressions and the details for identifying a missing bag.
- A2
- 8 words
- Gender marked
- With examples
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In short
Une valise is a suitcase and un sac is a bag. Un bagage is an item of luggage: a suitcase or travel bag can be a bagage. French counts deux bagages; English says “two pieces of luggage”.
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Find your bag and its features
Find:
The object and the category
Before and after the journey
| What you count | French |
|---|---|
| The physical types | J’ai une valise et un sac à dos. |
| The luggage items | J’ai deux bagages. |
| The missing item | Mon sac à dos a disparu. |
- Agente
Vous cherchez quel bagage ?
Which item of luggage are you looking for?
- Voyageur
Une valise rouge à roulettes. Elle a une étiquette bleue.
A red wheeled suitcase. It has a blue tag.
- Agente
Elle est grande ou petite ?
Is it large or small?
- Voyageur
Elle est petite, avec une poignée noire.
It is small, with a black handle.
For identification, the type and colour help more than mes bagages alone. Match the adjective to the object: une valise noire, un sac noir. The same bag can have several descriptions: un sac à dos names its shape; un bagage à main names its role during the journey.