バッグ
解説 Definition
bag は「かばん」「袋」という意味です。日本語の「バッグ」は主に手に持つかばんを指すことが多いですが、英語の bag は買い物袋や紙袋などにも広く使います。
A bag is a flexible container used for holding or carrying things, often made of cloth, paper, leather, or plastic. The word includes not only handbags but also shopping bags, paper bags, and similar containers.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
日本語の「バッグ」より範囲が広く、手提げかばんだけでなく paper bag（紙袋）や shopping bag（買い物袋）も表します。「物を入れて持ち運ぶ袋状の容器」を中心像にし、put a book in a bag、carry a bag、a heavy bag のまとまりで覚えると実際の使い方に結びつきます。
Do not limit bag to the Japanese loanword バッグ, which often suggests a handbag or fashionable carrying case. In English, the word covers many flexible containers, including a paper bag, shopping bag, school bag, and small travel bag. Keep the central picture of a container into which things are placed and then carried. Useful patterns are put something in a bag, carry a bag, and a heavy bag. This broad container image will help you choose bag naturally even when Japanese would use 袋 rather than バッグ.
例文
I put my book in the bag.
私は本をバッグに入れました。
She carries a small bag.
彼女は小さなバッグを持っています。
This bag is heavy.
このバッグは重いです。
bag の類義語・関連語
bag の語源・成り立ち Etymology
古ノルド語 baggi（袋、包み）に由来するとされる。中英語期にスカンディナヴィア語から借入された語。関連語: baggage, bagpipe。物を入れて膨らんだ形を指す語感が元で、bagpipeは袋状の楽器から名付けられた。
Bag entered Middle English from a Scandinavian source, probably related to Old Norse baggi, meaning a bag or bundle. Its earliest sense was a flexible container or sack, which remains the core of its modern use. The same word appears in compounds such as bagpipe, an instrument supplied with air from a bag, while baggage is historically related through the idea of bundled possessions carried on a journey.
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