葡萄牙曾经是一个农业国。

Portugal was once an agricultural country.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 葡萄牙 Pútáoyá Portugal
2 曾经 céngjīng
  1. once
  2. already
  3. former
  4. previously
  5. ever
  6. (past tense marker used before verb or clause)
=3 是 shì
  1. to be (followed by substantives only)
  2. correct; right; true
  3. (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well
  4. (adverb for emphatic assertion)
=3 是 shì variant of 是 shì
=4 一个 yīge
  1. a; an; one
  2. the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)
=4 一个 yīgè
  1. Combination of the numeral 一 (“one”) and the generic classifier 個／个: a; an; one
  2. same
5 农业国 nóngyèguó agricultural country