那只鳥是死還是活的?

Is the bird alive or dead?

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 surname Na
=1 Nuó surname Nuo
=1 variant of
=1
  1. (specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. nèi)
  2. (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations)
  3. then (in that case)
=1 nuó
  1. (archaic) many
  2. beautiful
  3. how
  4. old variant of nuó
=2 zhī variant of zhī
=2 zhǐ only; merely; just
=2 zhǐ variant of zhǐ
=2 zhī grain that has begun to ripen
=2 zhǐ variant of zhǐ
=2 zhī classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc
=3 diǎo
  1. variant of diǎo
  2. penis
=3 niǎo
  1. bird
  2. "bird" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 196)
  3. (dialect) to pay attention to
  4. (intensifier) damned
  5. goddamn

classifiers: ,

=4 shì
  1. to be (followed by substantives only)
  2. correct; right; true
  3. (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well
  4. (adverb for emphatic assertion)
=4 shì variant of shì
5
  1. to die
  2. impassable
  3. uncrossable
  4. inflexible
  5. rigid
  6. extremely
  7. damned
=6 還是 háishi
  1. still (as before)
  2. had better
  3. unexpectedly
  4. or
=6 還是 háishì
  1. had better; it would be best (to do something); one would be well-advised to
  2. nevertheless; yet
  3. or
  4. still
7 huó
  1. to live
  2. alive
  3. living
  4. work
  5. workmanship
=8 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
=8 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=8 really and truly
=8 (bound form) bull's-eye; target