他們站著談了很久。

They stood talking for a long time.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 他們 tāmen they; them
2 站 zhàn
  1. station
  2. to stand
  3. to halt
  4. to stop
  5. branch of a company or organization
  6. website
=3 著 zhāo
  1. a move in chess (Taiwan pr. zhuó)
  2. trick; tactic
  3. (dialect) okay; all right
  4. (dialect) to put in; to add
=3 著 zháo
  1. to touch
  2. to come in contact with
  3. to feel
  4. to be affected by
  5. to catch fire
  6. to burn
  7. (coll.) to fall asleep
  8. (after a verb) hitting the mark
  9. succeeding in
=3 著 zhe aspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state
=3 著 zhuó
  1. to wear (clothes)
  2. to contact
  3. to use
  4. to apply
=3 著 zhù
  1. to make known
  2. to show
  3. to prove
  4. to write
  5. book
  6. outstanding
=4 談 Tán surname Tan
=4 談 tán
  1. to speak
  2. to talk
  3. to converse
  4. to chat
  5. to discuss
=5 了 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=5 了 liǎo
  1. to finish
  2. (used with 得 dé or 不 bù after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 wàngbuliǎo "cannot forget")
  3. (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as 无 wú or 不 bù) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
  4. to understand clearly (variant of 了 liǎo)
=5 了 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=5 了 liào unofficial variant of 瞭 liào
6 很 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
7 久 jiǔ (of a period of time) long