做饭太费时间了。

Cooking takes too much time.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 做饭 zuòfàn
  1. to prepare a meal
  2. to cook
=2 太 tài
  1. highest
  2. greatest
  3. too (much)
  4. very
  5. extremely
=2 太 tā
  1. (Korean Classical Chinese) soybean
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) only used in 太末
  3. only used in 太末
  4. soybean
3 费时 fèishí
  1. to take time
  2. time-consuming
=4 间 jiān
  1. between
  2. among
  3. within a definite time or space
  4. room
  5. section of a room or lateral space between two pairs of pillars
  6. classifier for rooms
=4 间 jiàn
  1. gap
  2. to separate
  3. to thin out (seedlings)
  4. to sow discontent
=5 了 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=5 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)
=5 了 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=5 了 liào unofficial variant of 瞭 liào