我買不起一輛車。

I cannot afford to buy a car.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 我 wǒ
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
2 買不起 mǎibuqǐ
  1. cannot afford
  2. can't afford buying
3 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
4 輛 liàng classifier for vehicles
=5 車 Chē surname Che
=5 車 chē
  1. car
  2. vehicle
  3. machine
  4. to shape with a lathe
  5. Kangxi radical 159

classifier: 輛
=5 車 jū
  1. war chariot (archaic)
  2. rook (in Chinese chess)
  3. rook (in chess)