我們在飛機起飛前三個小時就到達了機場。

We arrived at the airport three hours before our flight.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 我們 men we; us; ourselves; our
2 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)
3 飛機 fēi airplane

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4 起飛 fēi
  1. (of an aircraft or rocket) to take off; to lift off
  2. (fig.) (of an enterprise etc) to start to develop rapidly
5 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. 293)
  10. former
  11. formerly
=6 Sān surname San
=6 sān
  1. three
  2. 3
=7 used in 自個兒 r
=7
  1. (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier)
  2. (bound form) individual
8 小時 xiǎoshí hour

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9 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 ...
10 到達 dào to reach; to arrive
=11 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=11 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)
=11 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=11 liào unofficial variant of liào
12 機場 chǎng
  1. airport; airfield
  2. (slang) service provider for Shadowsocks or similar software for circumventing Internet censorship

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