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Fr. 90'000.-, schreibe neunzigtausend Franken

English translation: in words

10:43 Feb 18, 2014
German to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Business/Commerce (general) / Rental Agreement
German term or phrase: Fr. 90'000.-, schreibe neunzigtausend Franken
Hi!

I'm translating a Swiss rental agreement from German into English.
I'm having a hard time finding a good solution for the following phrase: Fr. 90'000.-, schreibe neunzigtausend Franken.
How would you write that in English?
I doubt that you would say 90,000 CHF, "write" ninty thousand francs.
Any hints?
Anita Genova
Switzerland
English translation:in words
Explanation:
comes up a great deal in contracts.
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David Wright
Austria
Local time: 17:19
Grading comment
Thanks everyone!
I went with the brackets solution. I agree with phildoddard. Thanks!
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +8
in words


Explanation:
comes up a great deal in contracts.

David Wright
Austria
Local time: 17:19
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 1
Grading comment
Thanks everyone!
I went with the brackets solution. I agree with phildoddard. Thanks!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Inge Luus: Usually written in brackets - (in words: ...)
33 mins
agree  Charles Stanford
59 mins
agree  Penny Hewson (X)
1 hr
agree  Ted Wozniak: standard practice in English language legal writing
2 hrs
agree  writeaway: with Ted Wozniak. standard stuff, not necessarily limited to legalese
2 hrs
neutral  philgoddard: We wouldn't actually say "in words", we'd just write out the words in brackets. After all, it's obvious that they're words.
4 hrs
neutral  jccantrell: I have most often seen it the other way around in the USA, that is, ninety thousand (90,000) francs. Haven't seen it the other way round here.
10 hrs
agree  Abigail Weller
2 days 46 mins
agree  Rebecca Garber
2 days 3 hrs
agree  milinad
2 days 18 hrs
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