我等我的一个朋友等了一小时。

I waited for my friend for an hour.

I waited an hour for my friend.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 我等 děng
  1. we
  2. us (archaic)
2
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
=3 de
  1. of; ~'s (possessive particle)
  2. (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)
  3. (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
  4. (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 de "one made of leather" or 跑堂儿的 pǎotángrde "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 xīnde "new one")
  5. also pr. or di in poetry and songs
=3 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=3 really and truly
=3 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
=4 一个 ge
  1. a; an; one
  2. the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)
=4 一个
  1. Combination of the numeral (“one”) and the generic classifier : a; an; one
  2. same
=5 朋友 péngyou friend

classifiers: ,

=5 朋友 péngyǒu
  1. (archaic) large number of retainers
  2. (archaic, Ming dynasty) designation given by government bureaucrats to Confucian students
  3. designation given by government bureaucrats to Confucian students
  4. large number of retainers
6 děng
  1. to wait for; to await
  2. by the time; when; till
  3. and so on; etc.; et al.
  4. (bound form) class; rank; grade
  5. (bound form) equal to; same as
  6. (used to end an enumeration)
  7. (literary) (plural suffix attached to a personal pronoun or noun)
=7 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=7 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)
=7 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=7 liào unofficial variant of liào
8 一小 xiǎo
  1. (dialectal) since childhood; as a child; from when one was very young
  2. since childhood; as a child; from when one was very young
=9 shí old variant of shí
=9 Shí surname Shi
=9 shí
  1. o'clock
  2. time
  3. when
  4. hour
  5. season
  6. period