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How to Say ‘On the second floor’ in German

Im zweiten Stock

im tsvy-ten shtok

[im tsvy-ten shtok]

🇩🇪 In Germany: Germans count from the ground floor, Erdgeschoss "ground floor", so the second floor here is what Americans would call the third.

Phrase Breakdown

[im]

in the

A contraction of in dem, commonly used before masculine or neuter nouns in the dative case.

Example

Im Gespräch mit Mitarbeitenden erfährt man viel über die Firma.

In conversation with employees, you learn a lot about the company.

zweiten

[tsvy-ten]

second

Ordinal number indicating number two in sequence.

Example

Im zweiten Monat war ich sicherer.

In the second month I was more confident.

Stock

[shtok]

floor; storey

A level of a building above the ground floor.

Example

Die Wohnung ist im dritten Stock.

The flat is on the third floor.

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