我看到了一条狗。狗嘴里叼着一块肉。

I saw a dog. The dog held a piece of meat in its mouth.

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Sentence Composition

1
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
2 看到 kàndào to see
=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
  1. one
  2. single
  3. a (article)
  4. as soon as
  5. entire; whole; all; throughout
  6. "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1)
  7. also pr. yāo for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
5 tiáo
  1. strip
  2. item
  3. article
  4. clause (of law or treaty)
  5. classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc)
6 gǒu dog

classifiers: ,

7 gǒu dog

classifiers: ,

8 嘴里 zuǐ
  1. mouth
  2. in the mouth
  3. on one's lips
  4. speech
  5. words
9 diāo to hold with one's mouth (as a smoker with a cigarette or a dog with a bone)
=10 zhāo
  1. a move in chess (Taiwan pr. zhuó)
  2. trick; tactic
  3. (dialect) okay; all right
  4. (dialect) to put in; to add
=10 zháo
  1. to touch
  2. to come in contact with
  3. to feel
  4. to be affected by
  5. to catch fire
  6. to burn
  7. (coll.) to fall asleep
  8. (after a verb) hitting the mark
  9. succeeding in
=10 zhe aspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state
=10 zhuó
  1. to wear (clothes)
  2. to contact
  3. to use
  4. to apply
11 一块 kuài
  1. a piece; a chunk
  2. (fig.) (coll.) (typically preceded by a specifier such as zhè) aspect; area; dimension (Example: 情感這一塊 qínggǎnzhèkuài "the emotional aspect (of it)")
  3. (coll.) one yuan; a dollar
  4. together; in the same place; in company
12 ròu
  1. meat
  2. flesh
  3. pulp (of a fruit)
  4. (coll.) (of a fruit) squashy
  5. (of a person) flabby
  6. irresolute
  7. Kangxi radical 130