没有人明白为什么大象突然攻击了它的主人。

Nobody understood why the elephant suddenly turned on its owner.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 没有 méiyǒu
  1. haven't
  2. hasn't
  3. doesn't exist
  4. to not have
  5. to not be
2 rén person; people

classifiers: ,

3 明白 míngbai
  1. clear; obvious; unequivocal
  2. sensible; reasonable
  3. to understand; to realize
4 为什么 wèishénme
  1. why?
  2. for what reason?
5 大象 xiàng elephant

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6 突然 rán sudden; abrupt; unexpected
7 攻击 gōng
  1. to attack
  2. to accuse
  3. to charge
  4. an attack (terrorist or military)
=8 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=8 liǎo
  1. to finish
  2. (used with or after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 wàngbuliǎo "cannot forget")
  3. (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as or ) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
  4. to understand clearly (variant of liǎo)
=8 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=8 liào unofficial variant of liào
=9 it
=9 it (pronoun for an animal)
=9 tuō
  1. alternative form of / (tuó)
  2. used in 它它藉藉它它借借
=9 only used in 它它
=10 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 跑堂兒的 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
=10 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=10 really and truly
=10 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
11 主人 zhǔrén
  1. master
  2. host
  3. owner

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