你买不来朋友，你只能交朋友。

You cannot buy friends, you can only make friends.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 你 nǐ you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您 nín)
=1 你 nǐ you (Note: In Taiwan, 妳 is used to address females, but in mainland China, it is not commonly used. Instead, 你 is used to address both males and females.)
2 买 mǎi
  1. to buy
  2. to purchase
3 不来 bùlái
  1. (as a complement) be unable to
  2. be unable to
  3. to not come
=4 朋友 péngyou friend

classifiers: 個, 位
=4 朋友 péngyǒu
  1. (archaic) large number of retainers
  2. (archaic, Ming dynasty) designation given by government bureaucrats to Confucian students
  3. designation given by government bureaucrats to Confucian students
  4. large number of retainers
=5 你 nǐ you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您 nín)
=5 你 nǐ you (Note: In Taiwan, 妳 is used to address females, but in mainland China, it is not commonly used. Instead, 你 is used to address both males and females.)
6 只能 zhǐnéng
  1. can only
  2. obliged to do sth
  3. to have no other choice
7 交朋友 jiāopéngyou
  1. to make friends
  2. (dialect) to start an affair with sb