[General] a two floor building

[UM Chakma]

Hi,
I am describing a house which has two floors. Can I say like this? "It's a two floor building"

Thanks.

 

[Roman55]

I am not a teacher.

'A two-storey building' would be more common.

 

[Matthew Wai]

See http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/storey

Not a teacher.

 

[SoothingDave]

Or "story" in AmE.

 

[emsr2d2]

Or "story" in AmE.

Really? Now that I did not know.

 

[Raymott]

Slightly peripheral to the topic: in America, a two-storey building has a first and second floor. In Australia (and I believe in Britain) it has a ground floor and a first floor.

 

[Roman55]

Really? Now that I did not know.

I am not a teacher.

Not a moviegoer then? There was an American comedy horror film in the 1980s called 'House'. The first of its three sequels was called 'House II: The Second Story'. Is that witty or what?

 

[SoothingDave]

Really? Now that I did not know.

I thought it weird the first time I saw "storey" with an "e."

 

[SoothingDave]

Slightly peripheral to the topic: in America, a two-storey building has a first and second floor. In Australia (and I believe in Britain) it has a ground floor and a first floor.

Sometimes you will see a "G" for "Ground" on an elevator button. But, yes, the "first floor" is normally the one you walk into from the street.

The first time I went to Germany I found it amusing that we had to go up a flight of stairs to the get to the first floor.

 

[Tdol]

Slightly peripheral to the topic: in America, a two-storey building has a first and second floor. In Australia (and I believe in Britain) it has a ground floor and a first floor.

We have ground floors in Britain.

I wish we could have some agreement between the variants on this one as it can get confusing- I don't care which one wins out, but one should.