杰夫找了三个月以后才找到了一份工作。

Jeff searched for three months before he found a job.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 杰夫 Jié Jeff or Geoff (name)
2 zhǎo
  1. to try to find
  2. to look for
  3. to call on sb
  4. to find
  5. to seek
  6. to return
  7. to give change
=3 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=3 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)
=3 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=3 liào unofficial variant of liào
=4 Sān surname San
=4 sān
  1. three
  2. 3
=5 used in 自个儿 r
=5
  1. (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier)
  2. (bound form) individual
=5 variant of
6 yuè
  1. moon
  2. month
  3. monthly

classifiers: ,

7 以后 hòu
  1. after
  2. later
  3. afterwards
  4. following
  5. later on
  6. in the future
=8 cái
  1. ability; talent
  2. sb of a certain type
  3. a capable individual
  4. then and only then
  5. just now
  6. (before an expression of quantity) only
=8 cái
  1. (variant of cái) just now
  2. (variant of cái) (before an expression of quantity) only
9 找到 zhǎodào to find
=10 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=10 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)
=10 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=10 liào unofficial variant of liào
11
  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
12 fèn
  1. classifier for gifts, newspaper, magazine, papers, reports, contracts etc
  2. variant of fèn
13 工作 gōngzuò
  1. to work
  2. (of a machine) to operate
  3. job
  4. work
  5. task

classifiers: , ,