Die Ausleihquittung liegt in meiner Tasche.

The noun is feminine because the last part of the compound determines the gender in German.

• die Quittung = receipt
• Ausleihquittung = lending/borrowing receipt

Since Quittung is feminine, the whole compound is feminine too:

• die Ausleihquittung

This is a very useful rule for German compound nouns.

Yes, basically. German often creates long nouns by combining smaller parts.

Here, the idea is:

• ausleihen = to lend out / to borrow from a library or similar system
• die Quittung = receipt

So Ausleihquittung is a receipt connected with borrowing/lending.

The first part appears as Ausleih-, which comes from the verb stem area of ausleihen. You do not always have to analyze every compound perfectly when learning, but it helps to notice that German builds meanings this way very naturally.

German often prefers a position verb where English would often just use is.

• liegen = to lie, to be lying, to be located in a resting/horizontal way
• stehen = to stand
• sitzen = to sit

For many objects that are simply somewhere, German commonly uses liegen:

• Das Buch liegt auf dem Tisch.
• Der Schlüssel liegt in der Schublade.

So Die Ausleihquittung liegt in meiner Tasche sounds natural because the receipt is simply resting in the bag.

You could sometimes use ist in other contexts, but liegt is more idiomatic here.

Because in is a two-way preposition. It can take:

• accusative for movement toward somewhere
• dative for location in a place

Here the receipt is already inside the bag. There is no movement. So German uses the dative:

• in meiner Tasche = in my bag

Compare:

• Ich lege die Ausleihquittung in meine Tasche.
  Movement into the bag → accusative
• Die Ausleihquittung liegt in meiner Tasche.
  Location inside the bag → dative

meiner Tasche is dative feminine singular.

Breakdown:

• Tasche is feminine: die Tasche
• after in with a location meaning, you need dative
• the possessive mein- takes a dative feminine ending: meiner

So:

• nominative: meine Tasche
• accusative: meine Tasche
• dative: meiner Tasche

That is why the sentence has in meiner Tasche.

Many feminine singular nouns in German do not change their form across nominative, accusative, and dative. The case is often shown by the article or determiner instead.

So you get:

• die Tasche
• die Tasche
• der Tasche

With a possessive determiner:

• meine Tasche
• meine Tasche
• meiner Tasche

The important change here is mostly in meiner, not in Tasche.

Yes. German word order is flexible, but the conjugated verb usually stays in second position in a normal main clause.

So both of these are correct:

• Die Ausleihquittung liegt in meiner Tasche.
• In meiner Tasche liegt die Ausleihquittung.

The second version puts more emphasis on where it is.

What you cannot do in a normal statement is move things around and forget the verb-second rule.

Because all nouns are capitalized in German.

So in this sentence:

• Ausleihquittung is a noun
• Tasche is a noun

That is why both begin with capital letters. This is a standard rule in German spelling.

It can mean different kinds of bag-like or pocket-like containers depending on context.

Common meanings include:

• bag
• purse
• pocket

In this sentence, in meiner Tasche most naturally sounds like in my bag or in my purse, depending on context. If someone specifically meant a clothing pocket, German might also use in meiner Hosentasche for in my pants pocket.

So Tasche is a broad word, and context decides the most natural English equivalent.

It is fairly specific and sounds like the kind of word you might see in a library, rental system, office, or official context.

German often uses precise compound nouns for administrative or practical things. So even if the word feels long, it is completely normal in that kind of setting.

A learner should notice two things:

• German is comfortable with long compound nouns
• the meaning is often easier to understand once you identify the final part, here Quittung

That makes words like this less scary than they first appear.