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Spanish for your holiday · Chapter 4: At the airport

Where is baggage reclaim?

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The first sentence at the airport: ¿Dónde están los equipajes, por favor? Literally you are asking where the pieces of luggage are – which is exactly how it is said in Spanish.

First the word for luggage: a suitcase drops out of the hatch onto the belt and opens up. Inside sits a small toy elephant for children that dad paid for (equipa), holding a soft fabric kettle in its paw (jes).

You ask somebody for directions: there is thunder and he stretches comfortably (dónde), then points to some fir-wood branches on a door (están) with a small lottery ticket hanging from them – small, because the stress is short (los). And on the ticket hangs the toy elephant again (equipajes), before you walk through the gate (por favor).