汤姆午餐只吃了三个胡萝卜。

Tom ate only three carrots for lunch.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 汤姆 Tāngmǔ Tom (name)
2 午餐 wǔcān
  1. lunch
  2. luncheon

classifiers: 份, 頓, 次
=3 只 zhī variant of 隻 zhī
=3 只 zhǐ only; merely; just
=3 只 zhǐ variant of 只 zhǐ
=3 只 zhī grain that has begun to ripen
=3 只 zhǐ variant of 只 zhǐ
=3 只 zhī classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc
=4 吃 chī
  1. to eat; to consume
  2. to eat at (a cafeteria etc)
  3. to eradicate; to destroy
  4. to absorb
  5. to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
=4 吃 chī variant of 吃 chī
=5 了 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=5 了 liǎo
  1. to finish
  2. (used with 得 dé or 不 bù after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 wàngbuliǎo "cannot forget")
  3. (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as 無 wú or 不 bù) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
  4. to understand clearly (variant of 瞭 liǎo)
=5 了 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=5 了 liào unofficial variant of 瞭 liào
=6 三 Sān surname San
=6 三 sān
  1. three
  2. 3
=7 个 gě used in 自個兒 zìgěr
=7 个 gè
  1. (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier)
  2. (bound form) individual
=7 个 gè variant of 個 gè
8 胡萝卜 húluóbo carrot