在公車上，一位陌生人跟我搭話。

A stranger spoke to me on the bus.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 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)
2 公車 gōngchē
  1. bus
  2. abbr. for 公共汽车 gōnggòngqìchē
  3. car belonging to an organization and used by its members (government car, police car, company car etc)
  4. abbr. for 公务用车 gōngwùyòngchē
=3 上 shǎng used in 上声 shǎngshēng
=3 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
4 一 yī
  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
5 位 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
6 陌生人 mòshēngrén stranger
7 跟 gēn
  1. heel
  2. to follow closely
  3. to go with
  4. (of a woman) to marry sb
  5. with
  6. compared with
  7. to
  8. towards
  9. and (joining two nouns)
8 我 wǒ
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
9 搭話 dāhuà
  1. to talk
  2. to get into conversation with
  3. to send word