"Vi bor på samma våning."

Translation: We live on the same floor.

[BobShmob]

Oh oh, false friend with German "Wohnung" = apartment.

[Arnauti]

en våning can actually sometimes be that too, but only an upscale version of it. So most apartments are just lägenheter, but the luxury ones can be våningar (you can also just call them lyxlägenheter).

[tja.kra]

well I did hear that as woning as in Dutch too

[Synthpopalooza]

Also, våning, it seems, is used in a different context than golv, for "floor", as in the former refers to the level of a building, and the latter, to the actual physical floor in a room. Would I be right in this?

[Arnauti]

Yes, we have two different words for this. golv is only the floor in a room, never 'floor' as in 'first floor, second floor', those are always våning.

[ninady1980]

So våning = storey

[JonathonAustin]

why not 'vi bor på samma våningen' ?

[Arnauti]

It's the word samma that doesn't go together with definiteness. It's like things get definite enough from that word alone, so no more definiteness is needed.

[Brando2600]

Level is a correct translation, no?

[4oYBIxtO]

Level is often “nivå”

[AlisterEP]

In Sweden is it 'ground floor, first floor, second floor', or is it 'first floor, second floor, third floor'?

[4oYBIxtO]

Often it is bottenvåningen, andra våningen, tredje våningen

[as2907]

"We dwell on the same floor"?

[Brando2600]

Technically correct but ''dwell'' is not a common English word.

[PatrickBen16]

The translation says: we live at the same "story". This is the wrong English word. The correct word is "storey" i.e. level or floor. A story is what you write or tell, like "Little Red Riding Hood".

[CullenMowe]

Just for the record - in American English, both are spelled "story".