沒有水你無法活

Without water, you could not live.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 沒有 méiyǒu
  1. haven't
  2. hasn't
  3. doesn't exist
  4. to not have
  5. to not be
=2 水 Shuǐ surname Shui
=2 水 shuǐ
  1. water
  2. (after a name) ... River
  3. to swim (used mostly in 会水 huìshuǐ and 水性 shuǐxìng)
  4. (coll.) lacking in substance; shoddy
  5. (bound form) additional cost; extra income
  6. classifier for washings of a garment
=3 你 nǐ you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您 nín)
=3 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.)
4 無法 wúfǎ unable to; incapable of
5 活 huó
  1. to live
  2. alive
  3. living
  4. work
  5. workmanship