士兵們準備好要戰鬥了。

The soldiers are ready for battle.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 士兵 shìbīng soldier

classifier: 個
2 們 men plural marker for pronouns, and nouns referring to individuals
3 準備 zhǔnbèi
  1. preparation
  2. to prepare
  3. to intend
  4. to be about to
  5. reserve (fund)
=4 好 hǎo
  1. good
  2. appropriate; proper
  3. all right!
  4. (before a verb) easy to
  5. (before a verb) good to
  6. (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so
  7. (verb complement indicating completion)
  8. (of two people) close; on intimate terms
  9. (after a personal pronoun) hello
=4 好 hào to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to
=5 要 yāo (bound form) to demand; to coerce
=5 要 yào
  1. to want; to need; to ask for
  2. will; shall; about to
  3. need to; should
  4. if (same as 要是 yàoshi)
  5. (bound form) important
=5 要 yǎo
  1. (archaic) alternative form of 偠 (yǎo)
  2. alternative form of 偠 (yǎo)
  3. used in 要褭／要袅
6 戰鬥 zhàndòu
  1. to fight
  2. to engage in combat
  3. struggle
  4. battle

classifiers: 場, 次
=7 了 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=7 了 liǎo
  1. to finish
  2. (used with 得 dé or 不 bù after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 wàngbuliǎo "cannot forget")
  3. (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as 無 wú or 不 bù) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
  4. to understand clearly (variant of 瞭 liǎo)
=7 了 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=7 了 liào unofficial variant of 瞭 liào