为了赶上那趟火车,我特意起了个大早。

I got up early to be in time for the train.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 为了 wèile for; for the purpose of; in order to
2 赶上 gǎnshàng
  1. to keep up with
  2. to catch up with
  3. to overtake
  4. to chance upon
  5. in time for
=3 surname Na
=3 Nuó surname Nuo
=3 variant of
=3
  1. (specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. nèi)
  2. (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations)
  3. then (in that case)
=3 nuó
  1. (archaic) many
  2. beautiful
  3. how
  4. old variant of nuó
=4 tāng old variant of tāng
=4 tāng
  1. to wade
  2. to trample
  3. to turn the soil
=4 tàng
  1. classifier for times, round trips or rows
  2. a time
  3. a trip
=4 zhēng
  1. (ideophonic) jumping; leaping
  2. jumping; leaping
  3. used in 䞴趟 (“jumping; leaping”)
=4 zhèng only used in 䞴趟 (“walking; tottering; staggering”)
=4 chéng only used in 䞴趟 (“escaping in fear”)
5 火车 huǒchē train

classifiers: , , ,

6
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
7 特意
  1. specially
  2. intentionally
8
  1. to rise
  2. to raise
  3. to get up
  4. to set out
  5. to start
  6. to appear
  7. to launch
  8. to initiate (action)
  9. to draft
  10. to establish
  11. to get (from a depot or counter)
  12. verb suffix, to start
  13. starting from (a time, place, price etc)
  14. classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance
  15. classifier for groups: batch, group
=9 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=9 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)
=9 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=9 liào unofficial variant of liào
=10 used in 自個兒 r
=10
  1. (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier)
  2. (bound form) individual
=10 variant of
=11
  1. big; large; great
  2. older (than another person)
  3. eldest (as in 大姐 jiě)
  4. greatly; freely; fully
  5. (dialect) father
  6. (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
=11 dài see 大夫 dàifu
12 zǎo
  1. early
  2. morning
  3. Good morning!
  4. long ago
  5. prematurely