► 名詞
階 [(1)かい] meaning: floor rank: 2
☆ 彼の部屋は上の階だ ⇨ His room is on the floor above (☛ The concept of 階 is actually a level or strata, not a floor, so 一階 is the ground floor, 二階 is 1st floor in the European convention)
☆ 私の部屋は十階にある ⇨ My room is on 10th floor (☛ The concept of 階 is actually a level or strata, not a floor, so 一階 is the ground floor, 二階 is 1st floor in the European convention)
More examples:
- 彼は長い階段を息を切らせながら登った ⇨ He walked up the long stairs breathing laboriously
- 社会の階層 ⇨ Social strata
- 彼は十階から落下して死亡した ⇨ He fell from the 10th story and died
- エレベーター点検整備中につき、階段を御利用下さい ⇨ The elevator is under maintenance, so please use the stairs
- 軍隊の階級 ⇨ Military ranks
- 彼等はウランを兵器段階まで濃縮することに成功した ⇨ They have succeeded to enrich uranium to the weapon grade
- 彼は階段を転げ落ちた ⇨ He tumbled down the stairs
- 彼は上流階級出身だ ⇨ He is from an upper class family
- 彼は同じ建物の二階から五階に転居した ⇨ He moved from a room on 2nd to 5th floors in the same building
- 工事は仕上げの段階だ ⇨ The construction is at the finishing stage
- 上の階の足音が響く ⇨ The footsteps upstairs resound, are very loud
- 下の階は商店だ ⇨ The floor below is a store
- 建物の最上階 ⇨ The highest story of the building
- 改革は段階を追って行われる ⇨ The restructuring will be done step by step, in multiple phases
- 階段を登ると膝が痛む ⇨ My knee hurts when I climb stairs