enregistrer les bagages
To check baggage in French is enregistrer les bagages.
This phrase is used when giving your luggage to an airline agent to be stored in the hold of the plane. In natural conversation, you will often see the possessive pronoun used to mean 'to check one's baggage', such as in enregistrer ses bagages.
What does it mean word for word?
The verb enregistrer comes from the sense 'to register' or 'to record', which is the term used for checking in items at an airport.
Which one should you use?
While enregistrer les bagages is the standard way to refer to luggage in general, you can use the singular form enregistrer un bagage if you are referring to a single piece of luggage.
How does it change in a sentence?
The phrase uses the plural les bagages to refer to luggage in general, even if you only have one suitcase.
Did you know?
- While enregistrer means to check baggage, the word bagage is also used metaphorically to describe a person's emotional history or life experience. A person with beaucoup de bagages has a lot of past trauma or experience.
- The verb enregistrer is also used in French to describe the act of recording audio or video, such as 'recording' a song in a studio.
- If you are checking in a bag that is too heavy, you will pay un supplément bagage, which is the standard term for an overweight baggage fee.
Examples in context
- Pardon, où puis-je enregistrer mes bagages?Excuse me, where can I check my baggage?
- Il est nécessaire de déposer vos bagages à la porte d'embarquement.It is necessary to check your baggage at the boarding gate.
- L'agent m'a dit de mettre mes bagages en soute.The agent told me to check my baggage.
- Je voudrais enregistrer les bagages.I would like to check the baggage.
- Où peut-on enregistrer les bagages ?Where can we check the baggage?
- N'oubliez pas d'enregistrer les bagages à l'aéroport.Don't forget to check the baggage at the airport.
Example conversation
Nathan and Emma are at the airport check-in counter.
- NathanEst-ce que je dois enregistrer les bagages ?Do I have to check the baggage?
- EmmaOui, Nathan, il faut les enregistrer ici.Yes, Nathan, you must check them here.
- NathanD'accord, je vais le faire tout de suite.Okay, I will do it right away.
- EmmaParfait, je vais chercher nos passeports.Perfect, I will go get our passports.
