天很黑，我看不清楚車牌號碼。

It was dark and I couldn't make out the license plate number.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 天 tiān
  1. day
  2. sky
  3. heaven
2 很 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
=3 黑 Hēi abbr. for Heilongjiang province 黑龍江 Hēilóngjiāng
=3 黑 hēi
  1. black
  2. dark
  3. sinister
  4. secret
  5. shady
  6. illegal
  7. to hide (sth) away
  8. to vilify
  9. (loanword) to hack (computing)
4 我 wǒ
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
=5 看不清 kànbuqīng not able to see clearly
=5 看不清 kànbùqīng to be unable to see clearly
=6 楚 Chǔ
  1. surname Chu
  2. abbr. for Hubei 湖北省 Húběi Shěng and Hunan 湖南省 Húnán Shěng provinces together
  3. Chinese kingdom during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (722–221 BC)
=6 楚 chǔ
  1. distinct
  2. clear
  3. orderly
  4. pain
  5. suffering
  6. deciduous bush used in Chinese medicine (genus Vitex)
  7. punishment cane (old)
7 車牌 chēpái vehicle license plate
8 號碼 hàomǎ number

classifiers: 堆, 個