經理命令要把所有房間儘快打掃乾淨。

The manager ordered all the rooms to be swept clean as soon as possible.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 經理 jīnglǐ
  1. manager
  2. director

classifiers: 個, 位, 名
2 命令 mìnglìng
  1. order
  2. command

classifiers: 道, 個
=3 要 yāo (bound form) to demand; to coerce
=3 要 yào
  1. to want; to need; to ask for
  2. will; shall; about to
  3. need to; should
  4. if (same as 要是 yàoshi)
  5. (bound form) important
=3 要 yǎo
  1. (archaic) alternative form of 偠 (yǎo)
  2. alternative form of 偠 (yǎo)
  3. used in 要褭／要袅
=4 把 bǎ
  1. to hold; to grasp
  2. to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate
  3. handlebar
  4. classifier: handful, bundle, bunch
  5. classifier for things with handles
  6. (used to put the object before the verb: 把 bǎ + {noun} + {verb})
=4 把 bà handle
=4 把 pá
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 爬 (pá, “to scratch”)
  2. a surname
  3. alternative form of 爬 (pá, “to scratch”)
5 所有 suǒyǒu
  1. all
  2. to have; to possess; to own
6 房間 fángjiān room

classifiers: 間, 個
7 儘快 jǐnkuài as quickly as possible; as soon as possible
8 打掃 dǎsǎo
  1. to clean
  2. to sweep
9 乾淨 gānjìng
  1. clean
  2. neat