English: The bag doesn’t fit.
French: Le sac (ne) rentre pas.
Let’s talk about a common problem you’ll encounter: Passengers bringing on bags that don’t fit in the overhead compartments of the airplane. Generally speaking, airlines will outline on their website and on passengers’ tickets the size limitations of the cabin bags that they’re allowed to bring on board the plane. The airline will also have physical baggage sizers in the airport that passengers can use to test to see if their bags are within the airline’s size limitations. An airline may have different kinds of aircraft in their fleet, each one with different sized overhead bins. The airline’s cabin baggage size limitations will likely be based on the size of the smallest overhead bins in its fleet, so that the bag will fit on board any airplane in its fleet.
Oftentimes, cabin bag size isn’t as strictly enforced and passengers often make in on board with bags that don’t fit.
Here’s one way that a passenger may tell you (or you can tell the passenger) that “the bag doesn’t fit”.
Sac (m)=Bag, sack
Rentrer=To fit (in a space), to go back (in), to come back (in)
Le sac (ne) rentre pas=The bag doesn’t fit
Though ‘’rentre’’ is used in this context by French Canadian passengers, Module 4 of our Canadian French for Flight Attendants audio course will cover other more informal ways that your passengers may tell you that their bag doesn’t fit.
Module 3 of Canadian French for Flight Attendants is available. Learn the French that flight attendants commonly use on the job: greet passengers, stow bags, drink and meal orders, duty-free service, seat changes, wheelchair requests, weather announcements and much more!
Modules 1 and 2: French basics and pass your flight attendant French test.
Flight Attendant Souvenirs. Souvenirs d’un agent de bord. Morocco, December 2019. Maroc, décembre 2019. Jardin Majorelle, Marrakesh. A bit north of the old city of Marrakesh, you’ll find the Jardin Majorelle. “Jardin” (m) is simply the French word for “Garden”. Named after the French painter Jacques Majorelle, construction started in 1922. In 1980, famous French designer Yves Saint-Laurent and his partner Pierre Bergé came to Marrakesh, and inspired by the garden’s unique colours, they bought Jardin Majorelle to save it from destruction at the hands of hotel developers. They would often visit and live there and after his death, Saint-Laurent’s ashes were spread in this garden, where a memorial was also erected for him. (Sources: Wikipedia-Yves Saint-Laurent, Jardin Majorelle website)
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