昨天我寫信寫到很晚才去睡覺。

Last night I went to bed late after writing a letter.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 昨天 zuótiān yesterday
2 我 wǒ
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
3 寫信 xiěxìn to write a letter
=4 寫 xiě to write
=4 寫 xiè used in 写意 xièyì
5 到 dào
  1. to reach; to arrive
  2. to leave for; to go to
  3. to (a place); until (a time); up to (a point)
  4. (verb complement indicating arriving at a place or reaching a point)
  5. considerate; thoughtful; thorough
6 很 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
7 晚 wǎn
  1. evening
  2. night
  3. late
=8 才 cái
  1. ability; talent
  2. sb of a certain type
  3. a capable individual
  4. then and only then
  5. just now
  6. (before an expression of quantity) only
=8 才 cái
  1. (variant of 才 cái) just now
  2. (variant of 才 cái) (before an expression of quantity) only
9 去 qù
  1. to go
  2. to go to (a place)
  3. (of a time etc) last
  4. just passed
  5. to send
  6. to remove
  7. to get rid of
  8. to reduce
  9. to be apart from in space or time
  10. to die (euphemism)
  11. to play (a part)
  12. (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth
  13. (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker)
  14. (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
=10 睡覺 shuìjiào
  1. to go to bed
  2. to sleep
=10 睡覺 shuìjué
  1. (archaic, intransitive) to wake up
  2. to wake up