Mein Zimmer ist im vierten Stock.

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English Translation

My room is on the fourth floor.

But if in Germany and other European countries, this would mean the 5th floor. Ground level is considered 0 in Germany (1st floor in the USA).

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But if in Germany and other European countries, this would mean the 5th floor

… if you’re translating into English in the USA, Canada or Liberia.

If you’re one of the 2.5+ billion people living in one of the other 50+ countries in the world where English is a de facto or de jure official language, then this would be the 4th floor.

This came up with a similar sentence a few months ago -

Sein Büro befindet sich im siebten Stock.

I’ll just point out that it isn’t the case that ‘in English’ the “1st” floor is at ground level, as it isn’t related to language. What you state is indeed the case in the USA, but in the UK, Australia, New Zealand etc. the same system as in Germany applies i.e. the base floor is the ground floor, and then any numbered floors are all at higher levels in the building. There is a map of the mess that exists in floor numbering systems around the world on this Wikipedia page - The map on that Wi…

Note that on the Tatoeba page for this sentence “Mein Zimmer ist im vierten Stock”, one of the translations of a translation is “Mein Zimmer ist im dritten Stock” .