ホテル本館の１階にコンビニエンスストアがございます。

English translation: There's a convenience store on the ground floor of the hotel's main building

11:59 Sep 27, 2010

Japanese to English translations [Non-PRO]
Construction / Civil Engineering / 一階

Japanese term or phrase: ホテル本館の１階にコンビニエンスストアがございます。

Just a quick confirmation, please.
１階 is ground floor, right?
Which means ２階 is 1st floor, ３階 is 2nd floor, and so on.

Shobhana Chandu KudoZ activity Questions: 169 (none open) (20 closed without grading) Answers: 75
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English translation:There's a convenience store on the ground floor of the hotel's main building

Explanation:
You can use "ground floor" reasonably safely regardless of your target audience. As for the other levels, it's going to depend on whether your target readership will prefer British English or US English.

From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storey#Numbering

Numbering

Floor numbering is the numbering scheme used for a building's floors. There are two major schemes in use across the world. In one system, used for instance in the British Isles, the floor just above the ground floor is assigned the number 1 (or "first"); in the other system, used in the United States, that same floor is number 2 (or "second"). In both systems, the numbering of higher floors continues sequentially as one goes up, as shown in the following table:
Displacement from ground level British convention American convention
3 story heights above ground "3rd floor" "4th floor"
2 story heights above ground "2nd floor" "3rd floor"
1 story height above ground "1st floor" "2nd floor"
at ground level "Ground floor" "Ground floor" or "1st floor"

Note: "The existence of two incompatible conventions is a common source of confusion in international communication, sometimes even between communities who speak the same language."

HTH a little.

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KathyT
Australia
Local time: 03:38

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thanks, but then, the problem of nomenclature when translating from Japanese to English remains.
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There's a convenience store on the ground floor of the hotel's main building

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There's a convenience store on the ground floor of the hotel's main building

KathyT
Australia
Local time: 03:38
Native speaker of: English
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thanks, but then, the problem of nomenclature when translating from Japanese to English remains.

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