我们所有人凑份子给老师买生日礼物。

We all chipped in to buy our teacher a birthday present.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 我们 wǒmen we; us; ourselves; our
2 所有人 suǒyǒurén
  1. everyone
  2. owner
3 凑份子 còufènzi to pool resources (for a gift, project etc)
=4 给 gěi
  1. to
  2. for
  3. for the benefit of
  4. to give
  5. to allow
  6. to do sth (for sb)
  7. (grammatical equivalent of 被)
  8. (grammatical equivalent of 把)
  9. (sentence intensifier)
=4 给 jǐ
  1. to supply
  2. to provide
5 老师 lǎoshī teacher

classifiers: 個, 位
6 买 mǎi
  1. to buy
  2. to purchase
7 生日 shēngrì birthday

classifier: 個
8 礼物 lǐwù gift; present

classifiers: 件, 個, 份