un porte-crayon - un plumier - une trousse à crayons
the spelling for pencil case in french is "une trousse".
The word 'une trousse' is a feminine gender noun. In school that would be a pencil case. It means little bag, case or kit. For example, une trousse a couture is a sewing kit: the preposition 'a' means 'to', and the noun 'couture' means 'sewing'.
It means 'in my bag' in French. Dans mon sac j'ai ... means "In my bag I have ..."
A pencil case is called 'une trousse'; "In my pencil case I have a pencil" is "dans ma trousse il y a un crayon."
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A pencil case is 'une trousse', then the plural is 'des trousses'.
in my pencil case, I don't have ... -> dans ma trousse, il n'y a pas ... it translates back to: in my pencil case, there is no ...
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"I have one pencil case" in French is spelled as "J'ai un étui à crayons".
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