貓怎麼在狗屋裏？

Why's the cat in the doghouse?

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 貓 māo
  1. (dialect) to hide oneself
  2. (loanword) (coll.) modem

classifier: 隻
=1 貓 máo used in 猫腰 máoyāo
2 怎麼 zěnme
  1. how?
  2. what?
  3. why?
3 在 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 狗屋 gǒuwū kennel
5 裏 lǐ variant of 里 lǐ