我偶然在巴士上碰見了一位舊朋友。

I bumped into an old friend on the bus.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
2 偶然 ǒurán
  1. incidentally
  2. occasional
  3. occasionally
  4. by chance
  5. randomly
3 zài
  1. to exist; to be alive
  2. (of sb or sth) to be (located) at
  3. (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)
4 巴士 shì
  1. bus (loanword)
  2. motor coach
=5 shǎng used in 上声 shǎngshēng
=5 shàng
  1. (bound form) up; upper; above; previous
  2. first (of multiple parts)
  3. to climb; to get onto; to go up
  4. to attend (class or university)
  5. (directional complement) up
  6. (noun suffix) on; above
6 碰見 pèngjiàn
  1. to run into
  2. to meet (unexpectedly)
  3. to bump into
=7 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=7 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)
=7 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=7 liào unofficial variant of liào
8
  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
9 wèi
  1. position
  2. location
  3. place
  4. seat
  5. classifier for people (honorific)
  6. classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes)
  7. (physics) potential
10 jiù
  1. old
  2. opposite: new
  3. former
  4. worn (with age)
=11 朋友 péngyou friend

classifiers: ,

=11 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