十七歲的男孩常常長得和他父親一樣高。

A boy of seventeen is often as tall as his father.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 十七 shí
  1. seventeen
  2. 17
2 suì
  1. classifier for years (of age)
  2. year
  3. year (of crop harvests)
=3 de
  1. of; ~'s (possessive particle)
  2. (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)
  3. (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
  4. (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 de "one made of leather" or 跑堂儿的 pǎotángrde "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 xīnde "new one")
  5. also pr. or di in poetry and songs
=3 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=3 really and truly
=3 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
4 男孩 nánhái boy

classifier:

5 常常 chángcháng frequently; often
6 長得 zhǎngde to look (pretty, the same etc)
=7 old variant of
=7 surname He
=7
  1. (joining two nouns) and; together with; with (Taiwan pr. hàn)
  2. (math.) sum
  3. to make peace
  4. (sports) to draw; to tie
  5. (bound form) harmonious
  6. (bound form) Japan; Japanese
=7
  1. to compose a poem in reply (to sb's poem) using the same rhyme sequence
  2. to join in the singing
  3. to chime in with others
=7 to complete a set in mahjong or playing cards
=7 huó
  1. to combine a powdery substance (flour, plaster etc) with water
  2. Taiwan pr. huò
=7 huò
  1. to mix (ingredients) together
  2. to blend
  3. classifier for rinses of clothes
  4. classifier for boilings of medicinal herbs
=7 (literary) harmonious (variant of )
=7 huo
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) warm
  2. warm
8
  1. (third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he; him; his
  2. (bound form) other; another; some other (as in 他日 and 他人 rén)
9 父親 qīn
  1. father
  2. also pr. qin

classifier:

10 一樣 yàng
  1. same
  2. like
  3. equal to
  4. the same as
  5. just like
=11 Gāo surname Gao
=11 gāo
  1. high
  2. tall
  3. above average
  4. loud
  5. your (honorific)