男孩收集了一把花生,然後把它們放到了一個小箱子裏。

The boy gathered a handful of peanuts and put them in a small box.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 男孩 nánhái boy

classifier:

2 收集 shōu
  1. to gather
  2. to collect
=3 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=3 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)
=3 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=3 liào unofficial variant of liào
4 一把 a bunch of; a bundle of
5 花生 huāshēng peanut

classifier:

6 然後 ránhòu then; after that; afterwards
=7
  1. to hold; to grasp
  2. to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate
  3. handlebar
  4. classifier: handful, bundle, bunch
  5. classifier for things with handles
  6. (used to put the object before the verb: + {noun} + {verb})
=7 handle
=7
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (pá, “to scratch”)
  2. a surname
  3. alternative form of (pá, “to scratch”)
8 它們 men they; them
=9 fàng
  1. to put
  2. to place
  3. to release
  4. to free
  5. to let go
  6. to let out
  7. to set off (fireworks)
=9 fǎng
  1. a surname, Fang
  2. alternative form of 仿 (“to imitate; to resemble”)
  3. to base on
  4. to reach
10 到了 dàoliǎo
  1. at last
  2. finally
  3. in the end
=11 一個 ge
  1. a; an; one
  2. the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)
=11 一個
  1. Combination of the numeral (“one”) and the generic classifier : a; an; one
  2. same
12 xiǎo
  1. small
  2. tiny
  3. few
  4. young
13 箱子 xiāngzi
  1. suitcase
  2. chest
  3. box
  4. case
  5. trunk

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