這棟很高的房子被茅草屋頂覆蓋著。

The tall house was covered with a thatched roof.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 zhè
  1. (pronoun) this; these
  2. (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun)
  3. (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. zhèi, esp. in Beijing)
=1 zhèi (coll.) this
2 dòng
  1. classifier for houses or buildings
  2. ridgepole (old)
3 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
=4 Gāo surname Gao
=4 gāo
  1. high
  2. tall
  3. above average
  4. loud
  5. your (honorific)
=5 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
=5 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=5 really and truly
=5 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
6 房子 fángzi
  1. house
  2. building (single- or two-story)
  3. apartment
  4. room

classifiers: , , , ,

=7 bèi
  1. quilt
  2. to cover (with)
  3. (literary) to suffer (a misfortune)
  4. used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb)
  5. (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 bèilu:yóu to "go on a trip")
=7
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (“to cover oneself; to scatter”)
  2. alternative form of (“to cover oneself; to scatter”)
=7
  1. alternative form of (bǐ, “that”)
  2. alternative form of (bì, “wig”)
=7 alternative form of
8 茅草 máocǎo see 白茅 báimáo
9 屋頂 dǐng roof
10 覆蓋 gài to cover
=11 zhāo
  1. a move in chess (Taiwan pr. zhuó)
  2. trick; tactic
  3. (dialect) okay; all right
  4. (dialect) to put in; to add
=11 zháo
  1. to touch
  2. to come in contact with
  3. to feel
  4. to be affected by
  5. to catch fire
  6. to burn
  7. (coll.) to fall asleep
  8. (after a verb) hitting the mark
  9. succeeding in
=11 zhe aspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state
=11 zhuó
  1. to wear (clothes)
  2. to contact
  3. to use
  4. to apply
=11 zhù
  1. to make known
  2. to show
  3. to prove
  4. to write
  5. book
  6. outstanding