What is the difference between house and apartment in English?

In the daily use of foreigners, house refers to a building with one or two floors and only one family owns it.

An apartment refers to a multi-storey building in a unit.

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Houses generally have gardens, and apartments are generally commercial houses on the first floor of high-rise buildings.

The most direct distinction in Chinese is that the house quantifier is a building and the apartment quantifier is a collection.

But the commercial apartment building in China should be called condo in the United States, which is the abbreviation of condominium. The difference between condominium and apartment is that apartment generally refers to the apartment where the whole building is owned by one person or unit and rented by households; Each apartment in condominium has independent property rights, and the whole building needs to set up an industry Committee (HOA, which is also the reason for condominium). Like an elevator apartment building, only condo has no apartment.