First Time in Germany Apartment Search Goes Wrong!
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We say "ground floor" here, then 1st, 2nd and 3rd so on-
yeah so does most of Europe
This how the rest of the world, except from the US, does it
So happy I seen this I would’ve been fucked 😂
@@SnowOnTheBeach7 I'm confused because most US buildings count like this too
Everyone says that except America , 0 or ground
The way he said "goodbye" sounds like a npc character
No
The whole video sounds like ncp interactions
"oh, hi mark"
“non-playable character character”
Everything about that seemed like an npc interaction
Luckily he opened the door and spoke english right away as every good german would do
He probably heard him speaking English while trying to open the door
😂😂
USA hat
Most of us germans usually first try german and then english, as long as we are in our own country. Outside we first try english. As a german i can assure you, a good german would've spoken german.
UNLESS he heard the other guy in english. In that case he would've spoken english like that comrade just did.
@@juliusnebulus7303 Sueing by your comment, I am probably unlucky as hell, since at my work, when I start to speak German to Germans, they will reply to English and almost ban me from speaking German with them.
As a Brit who is looking to move to Germany to study, I can confirm that this isn’t an issue I am going to encounter
What are you on about. Its the same way we do it. Ground floor = ‘earth floor’
@@robinturnbull1731 read my comment again mate haha
@@robinturnbull1731That’s what he said! It ISN’T an issue for us.
Good to know India is on the same page.
That German guy was VERY friendly and helpful.
With the Bratpfanne in his hands 😂
@@sammuller2176
Yeah. Who knew, right.
If only more Germans were known for being friendly…
In German standards, he was a superhero. He just did a huge act of kindness and saved a lost tourist.
Yes, would be more realistic had he just called the police and stay silent inside. Haha
As a British person, we call the entrance floor the 'ground floor'
Yeah in Germany we do too. Then formally it would be 1st upper floor.
In America the 1st floor is the ground floor
In German we call it Erdgeschoss, so "earth bullet". 😜
@@chriskimmel7252 yeah, but sometimes i see it labeled as the 1st floor which is weird
@@chriskimmel7252 weird
"MathisstraBe" got me 🤣
Your profil image make me mad
@@andrzejandrzej7357is Türkiye bad or something?
Even when accused of breaking and entering you still get a helpful tip.
I swear I’ve met some Germans and I’d go as far as to call them the Canadians of Europe they’re all so kind.
Dunno where you found those germans but we europeans want to find them too 😂😂😂😂 You were just lucky lol
As an Austrian I can not confirm. In A sketch with their friend they're nice. In the wikd they're, well Germans a rather arrogant species
Yes, I've met a good few that were staying in Canada and they're a nice people, if a little dull in the humor department. After a year or so they got used to how jokes work over here though.
This isn't real, just saying.
“Canadians of Europe”
Funny you mention that…. Definately doesn’t also coincide with the Geneva suggestions
When the landlord said he was on the third floor, I knew what was about to go down 😂
me 2
Every immigrant knows what will happen
Same 😂 but I think having "ground floor" doesn't make sense when it's literally the first floor we stepped into.
Yess 😂 we knew it
As an American even I knew what was gonna happen lol
“No, that is in fact the 0th floor”. The way he said that is so German, I love it
Its not only in Germany its in most of Europe I live in Israel on the first floor if an american came to live in my apartment he would think that my apartments in on the second floor
@@thefireninja7601 you know the U.S. also has that but it’s called a lobby
@@zagreus1029 yeah but most most Americans I know are calling the lobby the first floor
@@thefireninja7601 your right but I’m just saying the correct term is lobby
@@zagreus1029 the lobby is something different than the first floor. In the United States the ground floor is the first floor. Not always the lobby. The lobby is usually the central location where the main offices are held especially if you're living in an apartment. So the whole first floor is not called the lobby. That's misleading
I love that Zach now counts on his fingers like a German
that "MaThIsStRaBuH???" injured me internally
Actually it goes like "ground floor, first floor, second floor" bc literally you say 'Floor'
Ya but reality ruins the scarastic joke and doesn't get views
Well we don't actually call it "first floor" but something that could mean "first level made of wood" or "first storage level" or "first added on top wood construction"
And the American 1st Floor we call "Earth level construction" .
The word "Stockwerk" comes from a time where only the ground floor was made of stone. Added floors were made from wood...and called "Stockwerk" while the ground floor is called "Erdgeschoss"
a Geschoss is a floor made of shott in wooden trusses.
While "Stockwerk" were floors each made as a self supporting frame construction.
sure german guy
Ahh yes the 0 floor houses
I seen some buildings has it as G,1,2,3 or star,1,2,3 in the elevator here in the US. But most of them are 1,2,3 though.
“We are finding ourselves in the 2nd floor”
Direct translation
Wir befinden uns im zweiten Geschoss
That’s so funny
Sounds like a spiritual comment
Was looking for this comment hahahah
As an engineer I can appreciate the zero indexed floor array. I need to move to Germany.
That is actually like this in most of Europe.
@@thomascuvillier7250yeah here in the netherlands we also have a begane grond (ground floor) and then 1 and 2 etc.
Think as usual American is the black sheep
Actually they say groundfloor (erdgeschoss.)
As a Russian, we indeed do not have the 0th floor and the entrance is on the 1st floor
Of course it's called the 0th floor. If underground is -1 and then it goes -1, 0, 1 not -1, 1, 2
0 = nothing. In this case… the ground. A floor is something. Therefore first floor makes sense
@@tylerriddle7735 thats why its called the ground floor, then comes the first floor.
you dont say "oh I live on the nothing floor" you say "I live on the ground floor"
We usually say F1, F2, etc., from the ground floor up, and B1, B2, etc., from basement floor down (B2, B1, F1(ground), F2, etc.)
When tf have you ever heard someone say the -1 floor
@@kyunikoi when theres a basement with multiple floors?
Hospitals have somewhat commonly -1 for visitors/patients.
Its not uncommon 😂
As a programmer, I approve of this way of counting.
It is the Python way of counting arrays.
x[0] is the first element of array.
Makes so much sense begininning + 0, beginning + 1, ...
In Argentina, we have "planta baja" (PB) which would be the ground floor. Then we count European style and apartments use letters starting with A.
In New York City sometimes the first floor is called the ground floor or the lobby with the 1st floor being on the 2nd floor.
And sometimes we just want to confuse you and label the floors with letters. I used to live in apartment E15..which was on the 5th floor.
Came here to say this. He clearly has never lived in NYC.
“I guess I am on the fourth floor”😂😂😂
It gets weirder in Norway in some cases. I lived in an apartment complex building that had floors, then half-floors. You walked up one set of stairs to get to the entrance, where there would be three smaller apartments, then you walk up another set of stairs to get to the first floor. Then you went up one set of stairs to get to the next half-floor with another three smaller apartments, before walking up a second set of stairs to get to the second floor, rinse and repeat until you reached the 4th floor.
Same happens in Greece but usually only the half floor before 1st is common
What the hell
With an arrangement like that, who needs a workout?
You have that in Vienna too in some old houses. Or there is another floor called Mezzanin. This is due to old building restrictions. You were only allowed to build 4 floors, but if you built a Mezzanine and Half-floors you could build up way higher legally
We Have that on some buildings in spain too
I was stationed there two times I loved it their hard working people who keep their towns and everything clean and very friendly. Loved the language.
That guy was probably the most friendly german there
I thought that was normal everywhere? In the UK it's called the ground floor, or sometimes the pavement floor.
Flat numbers are also sometimes expressed like
PF1 or GF1 (Ground floor, flat 1)
1F1 (first floor, flat 1)
2F3 (second floor, flat 3)
Etc.
We Americans have a tendency to make everything far more complicated for no apparent reason...
Yeah it's the same in India.
@@Calyptus187 normally I’d agree but we have it right on this one.
@@Pennington0Justin No. Ground, 1, 2, 3.
Yap, Portugal has a ground-floor too : rés-do-chão
"0th floor." Gonna use that from now on 😆
Dont. Nobody says that
Literally it makes no sense lmfao
It actually makes sense if you are a programmer.
@@gabrielvalerio3528 Do. Programmers say that.
@@Octuly indices start at 0
Even as a german this used to confuse me as a kid why the ground floor isn't called first floor 😅
Don't think of them as floors, think of them as "stories"
I’ve been to Germany, France, Spain ,Prague, Switzerland, England and Ireland. And by faar Germany looks and feels the most like the US
Probably because the occupation after the war i could very well be wrong though
@@1DJ_416 He didn't say Canada 🤦♂️
@@1DJ_416 he was just talking about the county's in Europe. Not Canada we all know that Canada is the most similar but no were talking about Europe not Canada.
German is the largest national origin among United States emigrants at 38% , I'd assume that's why
Nice to see Ireland 🇮🇪
This was like Emily in Paris when she was moving in 😭
Exactly what i was thinking 💀
And that what I was thinking
I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS COMMENT!!!😂 Thanks guys
Me too
Me too, sameee
The floor where the lobby is known as the Ground Floor , then comes the 1st...2nd...3rd floor ...ect
The guy having catan out in the open that looks like it's just been used is the most German thing I know.
Settlers of Catan on the shelf in the background makes it perfect
the fact he pronounced ß as b 😂
The ESS-sett does look like a capital b though.
ß-B
It’s a double s not b
@@areeb609 I know that. The ESS-sett does look like a B though ß
Someone tell me some yezrs ago, that the ß will disappear, because German politicians said that ß isn't necessary :'(
@@MeblIkea its just ss
They changed it long time ago
I had the same issue with the floors, too, when I moved to Europe from Russia 6 years ago. In Russia they also use the North American system without the "ground floor".
Usually I just say basement, downstairs, and upstairs. The basement is the 0th floor.
i went once to germany (Berlin) with my gf and the landlord was an amazing guy. we arrived at night the flight was delayed a bit, and the lady that sold the train tickets was an absolute asshole, so it took us an eternity to figure everything out (my phone didn't had internet for too long because my company messed up but it got fixed the next day) and i decided to ask for help to a policeman that gently helped a lot. i got the train and most people were super nice answering where it was the correct lane, and where i had to get out of the train. then 1h later than i should have been i called the landlord and told him i was in the train stop, he didn't understand english too well and my pronunciation wasn't the best either (i'm spanish) but he understood where i was and came and guided me to the apartment. i have to say it was surprised about how many people did understand english there. not only young people, but even adults!
unpleasant fun fact: adults almost all speak English but the younger generations not so well
@@alessandrof.1359 Thats not true at all
@@StormforceChannel don't know where you live but most young people really struggle with English hir
@@alessandrof.1359 I've been to various places in Germany and never witnessed this. Especially the older generation (60+) struggles a lot, some of them didn't have english as a school subject. The same at my university and work. Older people in larger cities such as Berlin tend to speak better english, so it depends more on rural or urban areas
@@alessandrof.1359 Yeah they speak "Denglish"
The most American part of this is that they argued about how shit in a somone elt's country works with a person from that country
I mean. He was right
I suspect you’ve never talked to anyone from another country before.
Andrew I suspect you make assumptions on people based on your own narcissistic nature
@@johnperic6860 once again this is an American not accepting things are different in other parts of the world
@@johnperic6860 ground, 1st above ground, and so on
It isn’t a difficult concept once the dude told him why the hell is he still arguing lol
“We are finding ourselves on”… that’s a good direct translation😂
Wait until you find out about the floor system in Spain, the entrance is ground floor, then the one above that is STILL not the 1st floor, then what the american would call 3rd floor is the "1st floor"
The ✨tAbLeGaMeS✨ in the back. That guy is a real German, 100%
How you can tell .... on the size of his underwear.........hahahahaha
Counting from the ground makes sense. You’re on Ground Neutral (zero) when you enter, -1 if you go down, +1 if you go up
It makes about as much sense as some countries considering the birthday as age 1 instead of age 0.
That is to say, it is heresy and anyone who believes this must be crucified.
Tell that to the Americans. Things that make sense all to often don't make sense around there.
Though I am sure the opposite is also true in many ways.
Tell that to the Americans. Things that make sense all to often don't make sense around there.
Though I am sure the opposite is also true in many ways.
@@darkm9347 Americans have been to the moon. Europeans have not.
@@laughs150 Americans used the metric system to go to the moon...
Even in America we have apts and such that will start on a base floor commonly called the "basement" or "terrace floor" that would be considered floor 0 and every floor after will be counted. Tho it is rare
In India, the first floor is actually called the “ground floor” a lot of countries do this! Such as england
The way he pronounces ß makes me wanna cry and I don’t even speak German-
“Mathisstrabe”
The german "B" is pronounced as a "ss" sound
@@christianhudspeth3338 And it's a cardinal sin to write 'B' in its place. There even exists an official majuscule 'ẞ' for some years now.
It's actually a ligature of the medieval ſ(s) and and ʒ(z), similar to the modern (C and 3 looking) letters in Cyrillic.
@@christianhudspeth3338 you mean ß (I’m not German)
@@christianhudspeth3338 ß
Floor means basicly "Stock" or "Stockwerk" in Germany.
it's equal to what he's used to.
The "Groundfloor" Erdgeschoss, is normaly continued by "Obergeschoss/OG"
basically "upper floor"
seemed to be mixed here.
beeing in the 2nd Obergeschoss would mean to be on the 3rd floor.
You are technically correct, however, I‘ve never met anyone who used the word Obergeschoss unless they are in a building with only two floors. In higher buildings, you would usually say Erdgeschoss, 1. Stock, 2. Stock.
He tried to hold back laughing after saying zeroth floor
I‘m German and I never understood this in my life. As a child it was soooo hard to understand!!!
It’s funny cuz in Brazil we count like that too. We have “térreo” wich means ground floor, and then there’s the 1st
I think it’s like that in most countries… at least in places I’ve been. I live in the uk and have traveled a fair amount and I’ve literally never heard it being referred to as anything other than either ground/earth floor or floor 0.
It's like that everywhere but America
@@mars3412 and China
But to complicate, the ground floor (térreo) is the first pavement (primeiro piso), and so on! 🤭
@@elenamccracken544 térreo means ground floor, it’s just that in Brazil we speak portuguese and that’s how u say it in portuguese
That's what happens when u follow a different form of measurements for everything even the SI units which were made to solve this very same confusion
AGREE!!! Thanks for saying this!
What are SI units? @@christineho4977
We're counting 0 1 2 3 in West Asia too😂
“Who are you, and why’re you breaking into my apartment?!” Dumbledore said calmly.
'Wir finding ourselves on ze sekond floor at ze moment'🤣🤣🤣
Tbh, the ground floor, 1st floor 2nd floor etc makes more sense, when you're in line with the street outside it isn't "a floor". You won't say "I'm on the first floor" while walking on a road, you'll say you're on the ground, ground level. It makes perfect sense
Yea but americans dont so i can understand his frustration
In some places we call them storeys. You are not in a storey because you are not in a building. If you are in a two-storey building they are the first storey and the second storey because that makes sense.
Both is correct...but you cant have both...
the board games in the background! perfection 😅
"We are finding ourselves on the 2nd floor" lol
Thats not just Germany it’s other European countries, here we call it the ground floor
Makes sense when ya think bout it 😅
There's always a ground floor before the first floor though
Edit: Over 200 likes?! I have never gotten that many likes before
In the US it’s usually B3,B2,B1 (B for Basement) 1,2,3,4,5, etc. ground floor is the first floor. You’ll generally find that out multi story buildings are usually on top of a basement, and are not slab construction. Because of that most entrance floors are actually supported by joists, making them ‘first floor.’ Even our single story house has a crawl space underneath the house, so it’s supported by joists, so ‘earth floor’ (or ‘ground floor’) doesn’t typically make sense. Some parts of the country may call it the ground floor, particularly those that may have more frame on slab construction where it’s more coastal and digging into the ground and keeping water out may pose a greater challenge.
@@M21assult ground floor meaning at ground level, you still get basement or sub ground level floors Americanisms all came after European terms due to Europeans populating it 👍
But the first “floor” is on the ground O_0
@@johnperic6860 i have never been anywhere in the us where there wasn't a ground floor
Right? I thought the same
Not me watching this exactly a week before I got to germany
This is exactly what I did when I visiting my sibling to kolon, Germany 🇩🇪--no elevator. The person I knocked the door were so nice to me😂
Love the Catan game in the background, so very German.
"Ground" floor = Zero floor
1st floor is above the ground floor.
Everyone knows that.
Your thinking of the mezzanine
They have a different system
@@That.Guy. Massive Attack, Mezzanine. That was an amazing album.
In America the bottom floor is the first floor.
@@ryancroy the office building I work in starts at "L" and then goes 1, 2, etc... There's not "one system" in the US
It's funny, here in America, mainly in hotels, we have the Lobby (L) or Ground Floor (G). What's funny is it goes to the 2nd floor after that XD
Ground floor is necessary for buildings with basement. The elevator will show, B1, B2..... For basement and 1,2,3,4.... For Floor and G for ground floor which is in streat level. This should be international standard.
That happened to me. I was in the US. And I was moving in, just as The Last Tenant was moving out. I met him outside the moving truck he gave me the keys and said the apartment is on the second floor. He was from the Caribbean islands oh, he must have count the ground floor as the zero, or 'Earth' floor. I was born and raised in the US, and counted the ground floor is the first floor. I get to the second floor As Told, opened the door which was unlocked and I was greeted by a vicious Rottweiler! I slammed the door, and then the apartment owner opened it up, I told him the error. Then I went up to my correct apartment on the 'third floor'. Every time I passed that door the dog smelled me and recognized me and tried to ripped through the door to kill me. He even tried to jump off the balcony once to get at me. I could have gotten killed if it was closer to the door.
Those darn foreigners.
@@irvingflores839 ? It just a culture difference, what does that have to do with their race?
@@TRJK do you even know what the word foreigner means?
@@TRJK wtf r u talking about
@@TRJK and just because someone is a different nationality doesn’t mean they are a different race
We are finding ourselves... just love that sentence
The German guy was that one NPC who helps you when you're lost in a game
"we are finding our selves on the 2 Second floor" ☠️☠️
In America we have ground floors or at least where I live
Yeah but then we usually go immediately to 2
Same where I live and then it goes 1, 2, 3, etc.
It's a Europe thing. Ground floor is always zero. Doesn't count. Most of the time is reserved for shops but occasionally you will find some apartments on the ground floor
We just count the floors you have gone up or down. 1st floor up, 2nd floor up, 1st floor down , etc.
Reminded me of my experience in Wuppertal. Tipped a Turkish taxi driver to help get the suitcase up the flight of stairs 😂
At first I thought Kramer opened the door
This was literally the first episode of Emily in Paris lmaoooo
finally someone said it i was looking for this comment sjbkjsdn
Lol I love the German guy’s accent!
No Sir , I think I'm on the exact floor I need to be. Now let me check this kimono real quick 😏
Reading strasse as stabbe got me rolling. I just moved to Germany a month ago and was doing the same thing for so long
"goodbye" 😂
Same in France we got "le rez-de-chaussée" so yea it's like the 0th floor x)
Here we sometimes have basement floor and elevated earth floor (mezzanine) as well
When they count from O, like how we count in programming language.
It's usually good to have labels for floors. In California I've seen different buildings have different coding systems, some having a ground floor, some not.
In Brazil we also have the "ground floor" and it always drove me nuts 🤣🤣
He has just arrived in Germany but counted perfectly.
“earth floor” and “0th floor” xddd
just call it ground floor
That obviously isn't how it translates from German
Loving the Catan in the background!
Here is the same 😂 "Térreo" then 1st, 2nd and it goes on
As per my experiences in many small cheap hotels in the UK and the continent, I can completely agree and sympathise.
Im pretty sure this is just europe in general lol.
it's the rest of the world. Everyone but America uses ground floor/ zero floor/ earth floor etc and counts up from there
@@thehumancondition5764 Japan is another country where the ground floor is called 1st floor.
@@saf1729 they're a vassal state of the Americans anyways, so no surprise there
There is basically only a handful of countries that doesn't use ground floor etc.
Most places in norway that i know of is 1st, 2nd, 3rd...
"MathisstaBe" HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAH love it
verstehe ich nicht
achso wegen dem ß
and don't you forget it , frying pan ready 😂😂
I go to Europe in a year, I gotta study this shit man
Bro we have "earth floor" too and I always count it as first lmao
Same in morocco
No
The basement is -1, entrance is 0, up from that is 1, then 2 then 3, that's how math works, you start at 0, and work your way up, it doesn't go -1, 1, 2, 3 that makes absolutely no sense
0 means nothing is there. That’s how math works.
@@Pennington0Justin no, if there was nothing there, that would mean that 0 is not important, which it is. 0 is the origin number. Everything starts from 0, weather it is a graph, coordonates, everything starts from 0, so if you start on the ground floor, you start from the origin point, aka 0
This, however doesn't go for your IQ, which obviously started negative, and is still negative
@@thelongestsilverestjohn you can’t understand a simple concept and I’m the dumb one? That’s hilarious.
@@Pennington0Justin you can't understand math. How is that my fault. 0 is the point of origin. You start a coordinates chart at 0,0, not 1,1. A graph starts at 0, not 1. a ruler starts at 0, not 1. It's not my fault that you are to incompent, ignorant and stupid to accept the fact that you are wrong. A child isn't born at age 1. a journey doesn't start at mile 1 or kilometer 1.
The first floor of a building is the origin. It's where you enter the building. The basement is below the origin point, and is therefore -1, the ground floor is the origin point, it is level with the ground, and is therefore 0, the floor above it is 1, and so on and so forth. You don't start at 1. If I start counting how many pens I have, I first need to have counted 0 pens, and then I count the first pen, and then the second, and then the third. I haven't already started counting before I decided to count my pens. So I don't start at 1, I start at 0. No pens. One pen. Two pens. Three pens. Extremely simple
@@thelongestsilverestjohn aww you’re too stupid to understand a concept so you got yourself all frustrated and repeated yourself in an even longer rant. This is too precious.
Because of how much I was used in Germany when I went back in turkey I accidently went to my grandma's neighbour
“zeroeth”
I love how he calls the ground floor "earth floor" he's at least right
He a little confused but he got the spirit
That's because in German the "0th" floor is called "Erdgeschoss" or literally translated: "Earthfloor"
@@Ilyena Erd can mean both earth and ground
We should learn other cultures and have respect to them. We have different things like this, we call the floors diferente that’s all nothing happens , just go up one more floor 👍
Even as a german i do not understand why we do this. I got so confused as a child.
The 1st floor is the 2nd floor in the building
Damn is it really like that? Inception 🤯
yeah
Dream within a dream.