你為甚麼買日本車？

Why did you buy a Japanese car?

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 你 nǐ you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您 nín)
=1 你 nǐ you (Note: In Taiwan, 妳 is used to address females, but in mainland China, it is not commonly used. Instead, 你 is used to address both males and females.)
=2 為 wéi
  1. as (in the capacity of)
  2. to take sth as
  3. to act as
  4. to serve as
  5. to behave as
  6. to become
  7. to be
  8. to do
  9. by (in the passive voice)
=2 為 wèi
  1. because of
  2. for
  3. to
=3 甚 shén variant of 什 shén
=3 甚 shèn
  1. excessive; undue
  2. to exceed; to be more than
  3. very; extremely
  4. (dialect) what; whatever (Taiwan pr. shén)
=4 麼 má exclamatory final particle
=4 麼 ma interrogative final particle
=4 麼 me suffix, used to form interrogative 什麼 shénme, what?, indefinite 這麼 zhème thus, etc
=4 麼 mó
  1. tiny
  2. insignificant
5 買 mǎi
  1. to buy
  2. to purchase
6 日本 Rìběn Japan
=7 車 Chē surname Che
=7 車 chē
  1. car
  2. vehicle
  3. machine
  4. to shape with a lathe
  5. Kangxi radical 159

classifier: 輛
=7 車 jū
  1. war chariot (archaic)
  2. rook (in Chinese chess)
  3. rook (in chess)