bag
A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etcA soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
» How many bags do you have?
Wie viele Taschen haben Sie?
Wie viele Taschen habt ihr?
Wie viele Säcke hast du?
Сколько у вас сумок?
Сколько у тебя сумок?
Скільки у вас сумок?
Скільки у тебе сумок?
Meaning
21 senses(countable, uncountable)A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
Sackerl, Tüte, Beutel
паке́тpakét, су́мкаsúmka, мешо́кmešók
су́мкаsúmka, мішо́кmišók, то́рбаtórba
(countable, uncountable)A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, briefcases, handbags, backpacks, etc.
(colloquial, countable, uncountable)One's preference.
Acid House is not my bag: I prefer the more traditional styles of music.
те́маtéma
(countable, derogatory, uncountable)An ugly woman.
уро́динаuródina, кики́мораkikímora, страхолю́динаstraxoljúdina
an ugly or ill-tempered woman
(countable, uncountable)The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
The grounder hit the bag and bounced over the fielder’s head.
(countable, uncountable)First, second, or third base.
He headed back to the bag.
(countable, uncountable)A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
(countable, uncountable)A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
(countable, uncountable)A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents
A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
(countable, uncountable)An udder, especially the pendulous one of a dairy cow.
Meronym: teats
Her bag is coming in nicely now.
(countable, usually plural, uncountable)The human female breast.
(countable, historical, uncountable)A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.
the quantity that a bag will hold
Examples
2101 sentencesHow many bags do you have?
Скільки у вас сумок?
ruСколько у вас сумок?
deWie viele Taschen haben Sie?
One of my bags is missing.
У мене пропала одна з сумок.
ruУ меня пропала одна из сумок.
deEine meiner Taschen fehlt.
Could you show me this bag?
Ви не могли б показати мені цю сумку?
ruМогли бы вы показать мне эту сумку?
deKönnten Sie mir diese Tasche zeigen?
My mother made me a bag.
Моя мама зробила мені сумку.
Can I have a paper bag?
Можна мені паперовий пакет?
ruМожно мне бумажный пакет?
deKönnte ich eine Papiertüte haben?
Translations
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Origin
Inherited from Middle English bagge, from Old Norse baggi (“bag, pack, satchel, bundle”) (Inherited from Middle English bagge, from Old Norse baggi (“bag, pack, satchel, bundle”) (whence also Old French bague (“bundle, package, sack”)); related to Old Norse bǫggr (“harm, shame; load, burden”), of uncertain origin.
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Forms
plural: bagsSynonyms
140 synonyms- a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes:traveling bagtravelling baggripsuitcase
- a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women):handbagpocketbookpurse
- an ugly or ill-tempered woman:old bag
- the quantity that a bag will hold:bagful
- an activity that you like or at which you are superior:cup of teadish
- mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats):udder
Word family
328 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
Collocations
12 patterns- bags bags
- your bags bags
- my bags bags
- his bags bags
- packed his bags
- duffel bag
- pack your bags
- bags bags of
- the bags bags
- a duffel bag
- sleeping bag
- many bags bags