你不知道昨天發生什麼事嗎？

Don't you know what happened yesterday?

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 你 nǐ you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您 nín)
=1 你 nǐ you (Note: In Taiwan, 妳 is used to address females, but in mainland China, it is not commonly used. Instead, 你 is used to address both males and females.)
2 不知 bùzhī
  1. not to know
  2. unaware
  3. unknowingly
  4. fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc)
=3 道 dào
  1. (bound form) way; reason; principle
  2. (bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization
  3. (Daoism) the Way; the Dao
  4. to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel)
  5. (bound form) to express; to extend (polite words)
  6. classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks, shadows etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process
  7. (old) circuit (administrative division)

classifiers: 條, 股
=3 道 dǎo
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 導 /导 (dǎo, “to direct; to guide; to lead; to conduct”)
  2. alternative form of 導 /导 (dǎo, “to direct; to guide; to lead; to conduct”)
4 昨天 zuótiān yesterday
5 發生 fāshēng to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out
6 什麼事 shénmeshì
  1. What's up?; Is something the matter?
  2. (coll.) (used in rhetorical questions of the form 关 guān + {person} + 什么事 shénmeshì "what business is it of {person}'s?; what's it to {person}?")
=7 嗎 má (coll.) what?
=7 嗎 mǎ used in 吗啡 mǎfēi
=7 嗎 ma (question particle for "yes-no" questions)