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Vocabulary
Objective: Recognise and use transit vocabulary to buy tickets, locate platforms and gates, and understand standard station announcements.
| French | English | French | English |
|---|---|---|---|
| un billet | a ticket (train) | un aller simple | a one-way ticket |
| un billet d'avion | a plane ticket | un aller-retour | a round-trip ticket |
| une place | a seat | une réservation | a reservation |
| un quai | a platform | une voie | a track |
| une porte d'embarquement | a boarding gate | une carte d'embarquement | a boarding pass |
| un bagage | a piece of luggage | un bagage à main | a carry-on bag |
The destination of a ticket takes pour, not à, so the preposition must change even though both acheter and prendre can be used with billet.
A train departs de a platform, not à. The preposition marks the point of departure.
The polite form je voudrais introduces the request, and pour marks the destination.
The verb partir takes the preposition de. The platform is introduced by de la because voie is feminine.
Retardé de is followed by the length of the delay. The past participle agrees with the masculine subject vol.
Embarquement is a masculine noun formed from the verb embarquer. The expression commencer à introduces the time.
The question word où introduces a location question. Porte d'embarquement is the standard phrase for a boarding gate.
6 exercises · about 9 minutes
| un retard |
| a delay |
| une annulation |
| a cancellation |
| un contrôleur | a ticket inspector | un agent | a staff member |
The fixed expression for a delay without a length is être en retard. When the length of the delay is given, être retardé de is used instead.
Before the masculine noun quai, the preposition à contracts to au. The sequence à quai without contraction is not standard French.
En provenance de means arriving from. The place name follows without an article.
Côté fenêtre is a fixed adverbial phrase used without an article, meaning on the window side.
Consigne is feminine, so it takes la. The location is introduced by au, the contraction of à and le.