建新家花了很多錢。

Building a new house cost a lot of money.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 建新 Jiànxīn
  1. (~) Jianxin (a village in Caidian, Caidian district, Wuhan, Hubei, China)
  2. (~) Jianxin (a village in Wangshi, Jianli, Jingzhou, Hubei, China)
  3. Jianxin (a village in Caidian, Caidian district, Wuhan, Hubei, China)
  4. Jianxin (a village in Wangshi, Jianli, Jingzhou, Hubei, China)
=2 jiā used in 家伙 jiāhuo and 家俱 jiā
=2 jiā
  1. home
  2. family
  3. (polite) my (sister, uncle etc)
  4. classifier for families or businesses
  5. refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China
  6. noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian

classifier:

=2 jie only used in 大家 (dàgū)
=3 Huā surname Hua
=3 huā
  1. flower
  2. blossom
  3. fancy pattern
  4. florid
  5. to spend (money, time)
  6. (coll.) lecherous
  7. lustful

classifiers: , , , , ,

=3 huā old variant of huā
=3 huā
  1. variant of huā
  2. flower
  3. blossom
  4. also pr. wěi
=4 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=4 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)
=4 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=4 liào unofficial variant of liào
5 很多 hěnduō many; much; a lot
=6 Qián surname Qian
=6 qián
  1. coin
  2. money
  3. unit of weight, one tenth of a tael liǎng

classifier:

=6 jiǎn
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) a kind of farm tool
  2. a kind of farm tool