我上機之前打了電話給兒子,叫他去機場接我。

I phoned my son before boarding the plane, telling him to come to the airport to pick me up.

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Sentence Composition

1
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
2 上機 shàng
  1. to board an airplane
  2. to operate a machine, especially a computer
3 之前 zhīqián
  1. before
  2. prior to
  3. ago
  4. previously
  5. beforehand
=4
  1. (loanword) dozen
  2. Taiwan pr.
=4
  1. a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打伞 sǎn "to hold an umbrella", 打电话 diànhuà "to make a phone call", 打针 zhēn "to get an injection", 打手套 shǒutào "to knit gloves", 打气 "to inflate")
  2. to hit; to strike
  3. to fight
  4. (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以后 hòu "since then")
=5 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=5 liǎo
  1. to finish
  2. (used with or after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 wàngbuliǎo "cannot forget")
  3. (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as or ) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
  4. to understand clearly (variant of liǎo)
=5 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=5 liào unofficial variant of liào
6 電話 diànhuà
  1. telephone
  2. phone call
  3. phone number

classifiers: ,

=7 gěi
  1. to
  2. for
  3. for the benefit of
  4. to give
  5. to allow
  6. to do sth (for sb)
  7. (grammatical equivalent of )
  8. (grammatical equivalent of )
  9. (sentence intensifier)
=7
  1. to supply
  2. to provide
=8 兒子 érzi son
=8 兒子 ér
  1. Term of self-address, used by a man when speaking to elders.
  2. baby; infant; newborn
  3. child
=9 jiào
  1. to shout
  2. to call
  3. to order
  4. to ask
  5. to be called
  6. by (indicates agent in the passive mood)
=9 jiào variant of jiào
10
  1. (third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he; him; his
  2. (bound form) other; another; some other (as in 他日 and 他人 rén)
11
  1. to go
  2. to go to (a place)
  3. (of a time etc) last
  4. just passed
  5. to send
  6. to remove
  7. to get rid of
  8. to reduce
  9. to be apart from in space or time
  10. to die (euphemism)
  11. to play (a part)
  12. (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth
  13. (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker)
  14. (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
12 機場 chǎng
  1. airport; airfield
  2. (slang) service provider for Shadowsocks or similar software for circumventing Internet censorship

classifiers: ,

13 jiē
  1. to receive
  2. to answer (the phone)
  3. to meet or welcome sb
  4. to connect
  5. to catch
  6. to join
  7. to extend
  8. to take one's turn on duty
  9. to take over for sb
14
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my