Lieferungen: Frei Schwalbach/Ts
English translation: delivery free - but not really free of charge.
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| na | you got it; Taunus |
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| na | delivery free - but not really free of charge. |
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you got it; Taunus Explanation: You got it: 'Frei' in combination with a place means free delivery to that place. Completely free delivery is often expressed as 'Frei Haus'. 'Ts' refers to the mountain range where beautiful Schwalbach, more precisely Bad Schwalbach, is located. Reference: http://www.bad-schwalbach.de Reference: http://dict.leo.org/?search=frei+haus&lang=en |
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delivery free - but not really free of charge. Explanation: Yes, you can translate it with delivery free. But this does not mean that you get free delivery. It means that the delivery is prepaid, prices are quoted with delivery included, etc. It is like the FOB, short for free on board, which means, here is the destination for which the delivery is prepaid. This may seem like a trivial point but it isn't. We are now ordering a large shipment of something and people can quote us FOB Toronto or Ottawa. Either way, they calculate the cost to ship it to the destination they quote on and we'll surely wind up paying for the shipping. However, it will be included in the estimate explicitly or implicitly. Here's a Eurodicautom entry on Lieferung frei German Term Lieferung frei Bestimmungsort Reference Zollglossar,Bonn 1989 Note EG-Zollwert English Term delivery free domicile Reference Zollglossar,Bonn 1989 Note EC customs value French Term livraison franco destination [1] Reference Zollglossar,1989,Bonn [VE1,NTE] As you can see from the French, franco, indicating postage paid, is used. Langenscheidt also allows postage prepaid as a meaning of frei. It's a sort of freedom that comes at a cost:)! BW, Nancy |
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