我想要一隻狗。

I want a dog.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 我 wǒ
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
2 想要 xiǎngyào
  1. to want to
  2. to feel like
  3. to fancy
  4. to care for sb
  5. desirous of
3 一 yī
  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
4 隻 zhī classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc
5 狗 gǒu dog

classifiers: 隻, 條