猫儿在椅子上睡觉。

The cat is sleeping on the chair.

The cat sleeps on the chair.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 猫儿 māoér kitten
=1 猫儿 māor
  1. (Beijing Mandarin, card games) joker
  2. (dialectal Mandarin) female prostitute
  3. female prostitute
  4. joker
2 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)
3 椅子 yǐzi chair

classifiers: 把, 張
=4 上 shǎng used in 上聲 shǎngshēng
=4 上 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
=5 睡觉 shuìjiào
  1. to go to bed
  2. to sleep
=5 睡觉 shuìjué
  1. (archaic, intransitive) to wake up
  2. to wake up