母親一定要我們在晚上七時前回到家中。

Mother insists that we should be home by seven in the evening.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 母親 mǔqīn
  1. mother
  2. also pr. mǔqin

classifier: 個
2 一定要 yīdìngyào must
3 我們 wǒmen we; us; ourselves; our
4 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)
5 晚上 wǎnshang
  1. evening
  2. night
  3. in the evening

classifier: 個
6 七 qī
  1. seven
  2. 7
=7 時 Shí surname Shi
=7 時 shí
  1. o'clock
  2. time
  3. when
  4. hour
  5. season
  6. period
8 前 qián
  1. front
  2. forward
  3. ahead
  4. first
  5. top (followed by a number)
  6. future
  7. ago
  8. before
  9. BC (e.g. 前293年)
  10. former
  11. formerly
9 回到 huídào to return to
10 家中 jiāzhōng one's home; one's family