我們花了很長時間決定我們真正要做的事。

It took us a long time to decide what we really wanted to do.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 我們 men we; us; ourselves; our
=2 Huā surname Hua
=2 huā
  1. flower
  2. blossom
  3. fancy pattern
  4. florid
  5. to spend (money, time)
  6. (coll.) lecherous
  7. lustful

classifiers: , , , , ,

=2 huā old variant of huā
=2 huā
  1. variant of huā
  2. flower
  3. blossom
  4. also pr. wěi
=3 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=3 liǎo
  1. to finish
  2. (used with or after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 wàngbuliǎo "cannot forget")
  3. (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as or ) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
  4. to understand clearly (variant of liǎo)
=3 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=3 liào unofficial variant of liào
4 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
5 長時間 chángshíjiān long time; long period of time
6 決定 juédìng
  1. to decide (to do something)
  2. to resolve
  3. decision
  4. certainly

classifiers: ,

7 我們 men we; us; ourselves; our
8 真正 zhēnzhèng
  1. genuine; real; true
  2. really; indeed
=9 yāo (bound form) to demand; to coerce
=9 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
=9 yǎo
  1. (archaic) alternative form of (yǎo)
  2. alternative form of (yǎo)
  3. used in 要褭要袅
10 zuò
  1. to make; to produce
  2. to write; to compose
  3. to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc)
  4. (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc)
  5. (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for
  6. to assume (an air or manner)
=11 de
  1. of; ~'s (possessive particle)
  2. (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)
  3. (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
  4. (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 de "one made of leather" or 跑堂儿的 pǎotángrde "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 xīnde "new one")
  5. also pr. or di in poetry and songs
=11 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=11 really and truly
=11 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
=12 shì
  1. matter
  2. thing
  3. item
  4. work
  5. affair

classifiers: , ,

=12
  1. alternative form of (zì, “to establish”)
  2. alternative form of (zì, “to stab”)