No. 15,758 in German
zwölfstöckigen
"Twelve-story" (referring to a building with twelve floors).
In a sentence
Das neue Bürogebäude ist ein beeindruckendes zwölfstöckiges Hochhaus.
The new office building is an impressive twelve-story skyscraper.
Here, 'zwölfstöckigen' is used as an adjective to describe a skyscraper with twelve floors.
Die Architektur des zwölfstöckigen Gebäudes erhält viel Lob.
The architecture of the twelve-story building receives much praise.
In this sentence, 'zwölfstöckigen' is part of a compound adjective describing the building's characteristic.
Wir besichtigten ein altes, zwölfstöckiges Wohnhaus im Stadtzentrum.
We visited an old, twelve-story residential building in the city center.
The usage of 'zwölfstöckigen' here provides specific detail about the residential building's number of stories.
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