> the bottom floor is 0, not the ground floor In the elevator sure, though just as often it's abbreviated EG for Erdgeschoss, which does mean ground floor. We

> the bottom floor is 0, not the ground floor In the elevator sure, though just as often it's abbreviated EG for Erdgeschoss, which does mean ground floor. We call the floor above that "erstes Geschoss" or "erstes Obergeschoss", whereas that would be the second floor in English, but we never say "nulltes Geschoss", always Erdgeschoss. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Erdgeschoss https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Erdgeschoss