很久很久以前住着一个漂亮的小女孩。

Long long ago, there lived a pretty girl.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
2 jiǔ (of a period of time) long
3 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
4 jiǔ (of a period of time) long
5 以前 qián
  1. before
  2. formerly
  3. previous
  4. ago
6 zhù
  1. to live
  2. to dwell
  3. to stay
  4. to reside
  5. to stop
  6. (suffix indicating firmness, steadiness, or coming to a halt)
=7 zhāo
  1. a move in chess (Taiwan pr. zhuó)
  2. trick; tactic
  3. (dialect) okay; all right
  4. (dialect) to put in; to add
=7 zháo
  1. to touch
  2. to come in contact with
  3. to feel
  4. to be affected by
  5. to catch fire
  6. to burn
  7. (coll.) to fall asleep
  8. (after a verb) hitting the mark
  9. succeeding in
=7 zhe aspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state
=7 zhuó
  1. to wear (clothes)
  2. to contact
  3. to use
  4. to apply
=8 一个 ge
  1. a; an; one
  2. the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)
=8 一个
  1. Combination of the numeral (“one”) and the generic classifier : a; an; one
  2. same
9 漂亮 piàoliang pretty; beautiful
=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 小女 xiǎo my daughter (humble)
12 hái (bound form) child