我曾是一片森林。

I was a forest.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 我 wǒ
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
=2 曾 Zēng surname Zeng
=2 曾 céng
  1. once
  2. already
  3. ever (in the past)
  4. former
  5. previously
  6. (past tense marker used before verb or clause)
=2 曾 zēng great- (grandfather, grandchild etc)
=3 是 shì
  1. to be (followed by substantives only)
  2. correct; right; true
  3. (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well
  4. (adverb for emphatic assertion)
=3 是 shì variant of 是 shì
4 一片 yīpiàn
  1. (one) piece, slice; one film
  2. piece, slice; one film
5 森林 sēnlín forest

classifier: 片