我們在地上掘了一個洞。

We dug a hole in the ground.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 我們 wǒmen we; us; ourselves; our
2 在地 zàidì (Tw) local; native (from Taiwanese 在地, Tai-lo pr. tsāi-tē)
=3 上 shǎng used in 上聲 shǎngshēng
=3 上 shàng
  1. (bound form) up; upper; above; previous
  2. first (of multiple parts)
  3. to climb; to get onto; to go up
  4. to attend (class or university)
  5. (directional complement) up
  6. (noun suffix) on; above
4 掘 jué to dig
=5 了 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=5 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 無 wú or 不 bù) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
  4. to understand clearly (variant of 瞭 liǎo)
=5 了 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=5 了 liào unofficial variant of 瞭 liào
=6 一個 yīge
  1. a; an; one
  2. the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)
=6 一個 yīgè
  1. Combination of the numeral 一 (“one”) and the generic classifier 個／个: a; an; one
  2. same
=7 洞 dòng
  1. cave
  2. hole
  3. zero (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers)

classifier: 個
=7 洞 tóng used in 洪洞 Hóngtóng, a county in Shanxi