她八歲的時候開始跳舞。

She started dancing when she was eight.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 她 tā she
2 八 bā eight
3 歲 suì
  1. classifier for years (of age)
  2. year
  3. year (of crop harvests)
=4 的 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 pígéde "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的 pǎotángrde "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 xīnde "new one")
  5. also pr. dì or di in poetry and songs
=4 的 dī a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 dīshì)
=4 的 dí really and truly
=4 的 dì (bound form) bull's-eye; target
5 時候 shíhou
  1. time
  2. length of time
  3. moment
  4. period
6 開始 kāishǐ
  1. to begin
  2. beginning
  3. to start
  4. initial

classifier: 個
7 跳舞 tiàowǔ to dance