那個作家正在寫新書。

The writer is working on a new book.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 那個 nàge
  1. that one
  2. that thing
  3. that (as opposed to this)
  4. (used before a verb or adjective for emphasis)
  5. (used to humorously or indirectly refer to sth embarrassing, funny etc, or when one can't think of the right word)
  6. (used in speech as a filler, similar to "umm", "you know" etc)
  7. (euph.) menstruation
  8. sex
  9. also pr. nèige
2 作家 zuòjiā author

classifiers: 個, 位
3 正在 zhèngzài to be in the process of (doing sth); to be currently ...-ing
=4 寫 xiě to write
=4 寫 xiè used in 写意 xièyì
5 新書 xīnshū
  1. Xinshu (ancient text written by Jia Yi during the Western Han dynasty)
  2. new book
  3. recently published book