Writing a cheque in French

Here is an example of a French cheque. When writing figures, remember that the French use a comma rather than a decimal point, e.g. eighty euros fifty would be written €80,50.

On the other hand, 'thousands' are separated with a full stop, e.g. eight thousand euros would be written €8.000.

To ask, "who do I make it payable to?" you can say "à l'ordre de qui j'écris mon chèque?".





Writing out numbers:
When do we hyphenate? Do you put an S or no S?! Et or no Et?!

Numbers that take a hyphen	Numbers that don't require a hyphen
quatre-vingts (80)	vingt et un (21) cent cinquante (150)

Numbers that take an 's'	Numbers that don't take an 's'
quatre-vingts (80) deux cents (200)	quatre-vingt-onze (91) deux cent un (201) deux mille (2000) - mille is invariable

Numbers that contain 'et'	Numbers that don't require 'et'
vingt et un (21) trente et un (31) quarante et un (41) etc.	cent un (101) deux cent un (201) mille un (1001) deux mille un (2001)