我的姐姐结婚前是个秘书.

My sister worked as a secretary before she got married.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 我 wǒ
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
2 的姐 dījiě female taxi driver
3 姐 jiě older sister
4 结婚 jiéhūn
  1. to marry
  2. to get married

classifier: 次
5 前 qián
  1. front
  2. forward
  3. ahead
  4. first
  5. top (followed by a number)
  6. future
  7. ago
  8. before
  9. BC (e.g. 前293年)
  10. former
  11. formerly
=6 是 shì
  1. to be (followed by substantives only)
  2. correct; right; true
  3. (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well
  4. (adverb for emphatic assertion)
=6 是 shì variant of 是 shì
=7 个 gě used in 自个儿 zìgěr
=7 个 gè
  1. (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier)
  2. (bound form) individual
=7 个 gè variant of 个 gè
8 秘书 mìshū secretary