Skip to content

De or het bagage?

de bagage

baggage; luggage

/ˌbaːˈɣaː.ʒə/

Forms

Singular
de bagage

Why de?

  • No reliable spelling rule decides this one, so de bagage is learned together with the word.

The rules for de and het, with the exceptions

Meaning in English

  1. baggage; luggage
  2. load, a person's relevant (especially hindering) background

Remember bagage with Spreek

Spreek keeps the Dutch words you meet, article included, reviews them with you and then has you use them in a spoken conversation.

See what Spreek does

FreeiPhoneDownload on the App Store (opens in a new tab)