"Customs checks passengers' luggage."

Translation: La douane vérifie les bagages des passagers.

[wmdajt1]

How about contrôle instead of vérifie ?

[pom666]

is "customs" always a singular word ?

[Lisaskier]

Customs CHECK passengers luggage.

[TKBowling]

Why is it 'LES bagages', and not 'DES bagages'? The question doesn't have THE as an article.

[pom666]

because the customs checks all luggage not some of them.

[Lisaskier]

But that is not true Pom, Customs do not check every single bag that passes through, that would be physically impossible!

[pom666]

you are right... but normally, that's the purpose (goal?) of customs... so it's a "generalization" => "les" and not "des". And the sentence "la douane vérifie des bagages des passagers" is weird, not possible in French... But "la douane vérifie des bagages" is right. I think there is a rule in French... that I don't know...