我已经几年没回去波士顿了。

I haven't been back to Boston in years.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 我 wǒ
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
=2 已经 yǐjīng already
=2 已经 yǐjìng already
3 几年 jǐnián
  1. a few years; several years
  2. how many years?
=4 没 méi (negative prefix for verbs) have not; not
=4 没 mò
  1. drowned
  2. to end
  3. to die
  4. to inundate
=5 回去 huíqu
  1. to return
  2. to go back
=5 回去 huíqù
  1. (Taiwan, euphemistic) to die; to go home
  2. to die; to go home
  3. to go back (used after a verb to indicate direction away from speaker)
  4. to return; to go back; to go; to leave
6 波士顿 Bōshìdùn Boston, capital of Massachusetts
=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 无 wú or 不 bù) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
  4. to understand clearly (variant of 了 liǎo)
=7 了 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=7 了 liào unofficial variant of 瞭 liào