這位老人餓死了。

The old man starved to death.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 這位 zhèwèi this (person)
2 老人 lǎorén
  1. old man or woman
  2. the elderly
  3. one's aged parents or grandparents
3 餓死 èsǐ
  1. to starve to death
  2. to be very hungry
=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 無 wú or 不 bù) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
  4. to understand clearly (variant of 瞭 liǎo)
=4 了 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=4 了 liào unofficial variant of 瞭 liào