薩米在一座很小的城鎮長大。

Sami grew up in a very small town.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 薩 Sà surname Sa
=1 薩 sà
  1. used in 菩萨 púsà
  2. used in transliteration
=2 米 Mǐ surname Mi
=2 米 mǐ
  1. uncooked rice
  2. meter (unit of length)
  3. (slang) Chinese yuan
3 在 zài
  1. to exist; to be alive
  2. (of sb or sth) to be (located) at
  3. (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)
4 一 yī
  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
5 座 zuò
  1. seat
  2. base; stand
  3. (bound form) constellation
  4. (archaic) suffix used in a respectful form of address (e.g. 师座 shīzuò)
  5. classifier for large immovable objects such as buildings, mountains, bridges etc
6 很 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
7 小的 xiǎode
  1. (coll.) young child; the little one(s) of the family
  2. (old) (humble) I; me; my (used by a commoner when speaking to an official)
8 城鎮 chéngzhèn
  1. town
  2. cities and towns
9 長大 zhǎngdà to grow up