开了半小时,车就坏了。

The car broke down after half an hour's driving.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 kāi
  1. to open (transitive or intransitive)
  2. (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start
  3. to turn on; to put in operation; to operate; to run
  4. to boil
  5. to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc)
  6. (directional complement) away; off
  7. carat (gold)
  8. abbr. for Kelvin, 開爾文 Kāiěrwén
  9. abbr. for 開本 kāiběn, book format
=1 jiān
  1. (obsolete) even, level
  2. a surname
  3. even, level
=2 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=2 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)
=2 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=2 liào unofficial variant of liào
3 半小时 bànxiǎoshí half hour
=4 Chē surname Che
=4 chē
  1. car
  2. vehicle
  3. machine
  4. to shape with a lathe
  5. Kangxi radical 159

classifier:

=4
  1. war chariot (archaic)
  2. rook (in Chinese chess)
  3. rook (in chess)
5 jiù
  1. (after a suppositional clause) in that case; then
  2. (after a clause of action) as soon as; immediately after
  3. (same as 就是 jiùshì) merely; nothing else but; simply; just; precisely; exactly
  4. only; as little as
  5. as much as; as many as
  6. to approach; to move towards
  7. to undertake; to engage in
  8. (often followed by zhe) taking advantage of
  9. (of food) to go with
  10. with regard to; concerning
  11. (pattern: jiù ... ...) even if ... still ...
  12. (pattern: ... jiù ...) if not ... then must be ...
6 坏了 huàile
  1. shoot!
  2. gosh!
  3. oh, no!
  4. (suffix) to the utmost