什麼阻止你早點來了?

What prevented you from coming earlier?

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 什麼 shénme
  1. what?
  2. something; anything
2 阻止 zǔzhǐ
  1. to prevent
  2. to block
3 你早 nǐzǎo good morning
4 點 diǎn
  1. to touch briefly; to tap
  2. to mark with a dot; to check off (on a list)
  3. to order (food etc); to select
  4. to mention; to bring up (a topic or person)
  5. to hint at; to imply
  6. to administer (eye medicine etc) in drops
  7. to light (a fire, a lamp etc); to ignite
  8. to nod (one's head) in agreement; to beckon by moving (one's hand) up and down
  9. point; dot; spot; speck
  10. dot stroke in Chinese characters
  11. (math.) decimal point
  12. point in time or space
  13. (after a number) o'clock
  14. a small amount; a bit; (after a verb or adjective) a bit more
  15. classifier for small amounts
5 來 lái
  1. to come
  2. (used as a substitute for a more specific verb)
  3. hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回来 huílai)
  4. ever since (as in 自古以来 zìgǔyǐlái)
  5. for the past (amount of time)
  6. (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 来世 láishì)
  7. (between two verbs) in order to
  8. (after a round number) approximately
  9. (used after 得 dé to indicate possibility, as in 谈得来 tándelái, or after 不 bù to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不来 chībulái)
=6 了 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=6 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)
=6 了 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=6 了 liào unofficial variant of 瞭 liào