天色開始暗了。麻煩你幫我開燈。

It's getting dark. Please turn the light on for me.

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Sentence Composition

1 天色 tiānsè
  1. color of the sky
  2. time of day, as indicated by the color of the sky
  3. weather
2 開始 kāishǐ
  1. to begin
  2. beginning
  3. to start
  4. initial

classifier: 個
=3 暗 àn variant of 暗 àn
=3 暗 àn
  1. dark
  2. to turn dark
  3. secret; hidden
  4. (literary) confused; ignorant
=3 暗 àn
  1. (literary) to close (a door)
  2. to eclipse
  3. confused; ignorant (variant of 暗 àn)
  4. dark (variant of 暗 àn)
=4 了 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=4 了 liǎo
  1. to finish
  2. (used with 得 dé or 不 bù after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 wàngbuliǎo "cannot forget")
  3. (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as 无 wú or 不 bù) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
  4. to understand clearly (variant of 了 liǎo)
=4 了 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=4 了 liào unofficial variant of 瞭 liào
5 麻煩 máfan
  1. trouble; inconvenience
  2. inconvenient; troublesome; annoying
  3. to bother sb; to put sb to trouble
=6 你 nǐ you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您 nín)
=6 你 nǐ you (Note: In Taiwan, 妳 is used to address females, but in mainland China, it is not commonly used. Instead, 你 is used to address both males and females.)
7 幫 bāng
  1. to help
  2. to assist
  3. to support
  4. for sb (i.e. as a help)
  5. hired (as worker)
  6. side (of pail, boat etc)
  7. outer layer
  8. upper (of a shoe)
  9. group
  10. gang
  11. clique
  12. party
  13. secret society
8 我 wǒ
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
9 開燈 kāidēng to turn on the light