Deutsch term
Years of experience
Native in: Englisch
Works in: Russisch > Englisch, Polnisch > Englisch, Deutsch > Englisch, and 1 more.
vierstöckige Gebäude
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Armorel Young
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Henry Schroeder
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Aug 9, 2006 20:24: Michele Fauble changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
Aug 9, 2006 22:15: Marcus Malabad changed "Term asked" from "vierstockige Gebäude" to "vierstöckige Gebäude"
Aug 10, 2006 07:24: Steffen Walter changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"
Non-PRO (2): Edith Kelly, HarryHedgehog
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Proposed translations
four-storey building
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Note added at 8 mins (2006-08-09 19:25:55 GMT)
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A four-storey building always has 4 floors including the ground floor - i.e. a ground floor and 3 upper floors, making 4 in total.
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Note added at 9 mins (2006-08-09 19:27:20 GMT)
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Don't make the mistake of confusing the total number of stories - which is quite clearly 4 in this instance - with how the stories are numbered, which is a different question.
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Note added at 24 mins (2006-08-09 19:42:19 GMT)
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a) Einstöckiges Gebäude. Falls Ihr Haus nur ein Stockwerk hat (Bungalow oder. transportable Wohnwagen) sollte der erste Rauchmelder im ...
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q="einstöckiges Gebäude...
So an einstöckiges Gebäude has a single storey (ground floor only), a zweistöckiges Gebäude has two stories and so on.
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Hattie Spence
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BirgitBerlin
: Indeed!
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Brie Vernier
: Quite logical
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Armin Prediger
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Michele Fauble
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Lancashireman
: The French think there are 15 days in a fortnight.
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Erik Freitag
: @Andrew: Do they really THINK that, or isn't it just a saying?;-) Btw, there is something similar in German: "in acht Tagen", meaning "in one week".
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Julia Lipeles
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Stephen Reader
: Late arrival at party. Gawd I'm learning. "Floor" synon. with "storey" in Collins Eng. Dict.; 4 me "4-stöckig" would include the 'un-numbered' ground floor (+1st - 3rd) in GB or the numbered ground floor(+2nd-4th) in US. Oh & Japanese gestate "10 months"
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Vereinigte Staaten
20 years of experience, certified, ATA
Native in: Englisch (Variant: US) 
Works in: Deutsch > Englisch, Russisch > Englisch, Englisch
five-story building
I believe we spell storey without the e in the US.
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Note added at 11 mins (2006-08-09 19:29:06 GMT)
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I would say the opposite of Amorel, though I'm not a native speaker. I thought it was four floors plus the ground floor. If you say "I live on the fourth floor" in Germany, it means you live on the "fifth floor" in the US. That I know.
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