這個男孩睡了八個小時。

This boy slept for eight hours.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 這個 zhège
  1. (pronoun) this
  2. (adjective) this
2 男孩 nánhái boy

classifier: 個
3 睡 shuì
  1. to sleep
  2. to lie down
=4 了 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=4 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)
=4 了 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=4 了 liào unofficial variant of 瞭 liào
5 八 bā eight
=6 個 gě used in 自个儿 zìgěr
=6 個 gè
  1. (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier)
  2. (bound form) individual
7 小時 xiǎoshí hour

classifier: 個