猫正在吃老鼠。

The cat is eating the mouse.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 猫 māo
  1. (dialect) to hide oneself
  2. (loanword) (coll.) modem

classifier: 隻
=1 猫 máo used in 貓腰 máoyāo
2 正在 zhèngzài to be in the process of (doing sth); to be currently ...-ing
=3 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)
=3 吃 chī variant of 吃 chī
4 老鼠 lǎoshǔ
  1. (archaic dialectal, Guilin Mandarin) bat (animal)
  2. (countable) mouse and rat in general (Classifier: 隻／只 m c h)
  3. bat (animal)
  4. cunning, deceitful person
  5. mouse and rat in general (Classifier: 隻／只 m c h)

classifier: 隻