母親在我的生日蛋糕上插上了十三枝蠟燭。

My mother put thirteen candles on my birthday cake.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 母親 qīn
  1. mother
  2. also pr. qin

classifier:

2 zài
  1. to exist; to be alive
  2. (of sb or sth) to be (located) at
  3. (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)
3
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
=4 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 跑堂兒的 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
=4 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=4 really and truly
=4 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
5 生日蛋糕 shēngdàngāo birthday cake
=6 shǎng used in 上聲 shǎngshēng
=6 shàng
  1. (bound form) up; upper; above; previous
  2. first (of multiple parts)
  3. to climb; to get onto; to go up
  4. to attend (class or university)
  5. (directional complement) up
  6. (noun suffix) on; above
7 插上 chāshang
  1. to plug into
  2. to insert
  3. to stick in
=8 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=8 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)
=8 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=8 liào unofficial variant of liào
9 十三 shísān
  1. thirteen
  2. 13
=10 zhī
  1. branch
  2. classifier for sticks, rods, pencils etc
=10
  1. alternative form of (qí, “divergent”)
  2. alternative form of (“extra toe”)
11 蠟燭 zhú candle

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