我買了一張專輯給約翰。

I bought John an album.

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Sentence Composition

1 我 wǒ
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
2 買 mǎi
  1. to buy
  2. to purchase
=3 了 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=3 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)
=3 了 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=3 了 liào unofficial variant of 瞭 liào
4 一 yī
  1. one
  2. single
  3. a (article)
  4. as soon as
  5. entire; whole; all; throughout
  6. "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1)
  7. also pr. yāo for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
=5 張 Zhāng surname Zhang
=5 張 zhāng
  1. to open up
  2. to spread
  3. sheet of paper
  4. classifier for flat objects, sheet
  5. classifier for votes
=5 張 zhàng
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Original form of 帳／帐 (zhàng).
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Original form of 脹／胀 (zhàng).
  3. Original form of 帳／帐 (zhàng).
  4. Original form of 脹／胀 (zhàng).
  5. to boast; to exaggerate (now merged into Pronunciation 1)
6 專輯 zhuānjí
  1. album
  2. record (music)
  3. special collection of printed or broadcast material
=7 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)
=7 給 jǐ
  1. to supply
  2. to provide
8 約翰 Yuēhàn
  1. John (name)
  2. Johan (name)
  3. Johann (name)