乌云正掠过这座城市。

Black clouds were passing above the city.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 乌云 wūyún black cloud
=2 正 zhēng first month of the lunar year
=2 正 zhèng
  1. straight
  2. upright
  3. proper
  4. main
  5. principal
  6. to correct
  7. to rectify
  8. exactly
  9. just (at that time)
  10. right (in that place)
  11. (math.) positive
3 掠过 lüèguò
  1. to flit across
  2. to sweep past
  3. to glance (strike at an angle)
=4 这 zhè
  1. (pronoun) this; these
  2. (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun)
  3. (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. zhèi, esp. in Beijing)
=4 这 zhèi (coll.) this
5 座 zuò
  1. seat
  2. base; stand
  3. (bound form) constellation
  4. (archaic) suffix used in a respectful form of address (e.g. 师座 shīzuò)
  5. classifier for large immovable objects such as buildings, mountains, bridges etc
6 城市 chéngshì city; town

classifier: 座