我想給她一個驚喜。

I wanted to surprise her.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 我 wǒ
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
2 想 xiǎng
  1. to think (about)
  2. to think of; to devise
  3. to think (that); to believe (that)
  4. to desire; to want (to)
  5. to miss (feel wistful about the absence of)
=3 給 gěi
  1. to
  2. for
  3. for the benefit of
  4. to give
  5. to allow
  6. to do sth (for sb)
  7. (grammatical equivalent of 被)
  8. (grammatical equivalent of 把)
  9. (sentence intensifier)
=3 給 jǐ
  1. to supply
  2. to provide
4 她 tā she
=5 一個 yīge
  1. a; an; one
  2. the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)
=5 一個 yīgè
  1. Combination of the numeral 一 (“one”) and the generic classifier 個／个: a; an; one
  2. same
6 驚喜 jīngxǐ
  1. nice surprise
  2. to be pleasantly surprised