下學期你要參加考試嗎？

Are you taking tests on the next session?

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 下學 xiàxué
  1. (dialectal, old-fashioned in Written Standard Chinese)to finish school for the day
  2. to finish school for the day
=2 期 qī
  1. variant of 期 qī
  2. period
  3. cycle
=2 期 qī
  1. a period of time
  2. phase
  3. stage
  4. classifier for issues of a periodical, courses of study
  5. time
  6. term
  7. period
  8. to hope
  9. Taiwan pr. qí
=2 期 jī
  1. (historical, obsolete) short for 期服 (“mourning garment worn for one year following the death of a senior family member; yearlong period of mourning”)
  2. (obsolete) whole year; entire month; one-year anniversary
  3. short for 期服 (“mourning garment worn for one year following the death of a senior family member; yearlong period of mourning”)
  4. whole year; entire month; one-year anniversary
=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 要 yāo (bound form) to demand; to coerce
=4 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
=4 要 yǎo
  1. (archaic) alternative form of 偠 (yǎo)
  2. alternative form of 偠 (yǎo)
  3. used in 要褭／要袅
5 參加 cānjiā
  1. to participate
  2. to take part
  3. to join
6 考試 kǎoshì
  1. to take an exam
  2. exam

classifier: 次
=7 嗎 má (coll.) what?
=7 嗎 mǎ used in 嗎啡 mǎfēi
=7 嗎 ma (question particle for "yes-no" questions)