發生了什麼事?車子慢下來了。

What happened? The car's slowing down.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 發生 shēng to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out
=2 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=2 liǎo
  1. to finish
  2. (used with or after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 wàngbuliǎo "cannot forget")
  3. (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as or ) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
  4. to understand clearly (variant of liǎo)
=2 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=2 liào unofficial variant of liào
3 什麼事 shénmeshì
  1. What's up?; Is something the matter?
  2. (coll.) (used in rhetorical questions of the form guān + {person} + 什么事 shénmeshì "what business is it of {person}'s?; what's it to {person}?")
=4 車子 chēzi car or other vehicle (bicycle, truck etc)
=4 車子 chē
  1. (Classical) cart driver; coachman
  2. cart driver; coachman
5 màn slow
=6 下來 xiàlai
  1. to come down
  2. (completed action marker)
  3. (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.)
  4. (indicates continuation from the past towards us)
  5. to be harvested (of crops)
  6. to be over (of a period of time)
  7. to go among the masses (said of leaders)
=6 下來 xiàlái
  1. (used after a verb) down (toward oneself, or figuratively)
  2. down (toward oneself, or figuratively)
  3. to come down
=7 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=7 liǎo
  1. to finish
  2. (used with or after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 wàngbuliǎo "cannot forget")
  3. (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as or ) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
  4. to understand clearly (variant of liǎo)
=7 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=7 liào unofficial variant of liào