我吃過晚飯後打開電視看了一會兒新聞。

I watched the news on TV after supper.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
=2 chī
  1. to eat; to consume
  2. to eat at (a cafeteria etc)
  3. to eradicate; to destroy
  4. to absorb
  5. to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
=2 chī variant of chī
=3 Guō surname Guo
=3 guò
  1. to cross
  2. to go over
  3. to pass (time)
  4. to celebrate (a holiday)
  5. to live
  6. to get along
  7. excessively
  8. too-
=3 guo (experienced action marker)
4 晚飯 wǎnfàn
  1. evening meal
  2. dinner
  3. supper

classifiers: , , ,

5 hòu
  1. back
  2. behind
  3. rear
  4. afterwards
  5. after
  6. later
  7. post-
6 打開 kāi
  1. to open
  2. to show (a ticket)
  3. to turn on
  4. to switch on
7 電視 diànshì television; TV

classifiers: ,

=8 kān
  1. to look after
  2. to take care of
  3. to watch
  4. to guard
=8 kàn
  1. to see; to look at
  2. to read
  3. to watch
  4. to visit; to call on
  5. to consider; to regard as
  6. to look after
  7. to treat (a patient or illness)
  8. to depend on
  9. to feel (that)
  10. (after a verb) to give it a try
  11. to watch out for
=9 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=9 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)
=9 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=9 liào unofficial variant of liào
10 一會兒 huìr
  1. a moment
  2. a while
  3. in a moment
  4. now...now...
  5. also pr. huǐr
11 新聞 xīnwén news

classifiers: ,