五年太漫長而無法等待。

Five years is too long to wait.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 五 wǔ
  1. five
  2. 5
=2 年 Nián surname Nian
=2 年 nián year

classifier: 個
=2 年 nián
  1. grain
  2. harvest (old)
  3. variant of 年 nián
=3 太 tài
  1. highest
  2. greatest
  3. too (much)
  4. very
  5. extremely
=3 太 tā
  1. (Korean Classical Chinese) soybean
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) only used in 太末
  3. only used in 太末
  4. soybean
4 漫長 màncháng
  1. very long
  2. endless
5 而 ér
  1. and
  2. as well as
  3. and so
  4. but (not)
  5. yet (not)
  6. (indicates causal relation)
  7. (indicates change of state)
  8. (indicates contrast)
6 無法 wúfǎ unable to; incapable of
7 等待 děngdài to wait; to wait for