事故發生在高速公路上。

The accident took place on the highway.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 事故 shìgù accident

classifiers: 樁, 起, 次
2 發生 fāshēng to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out
3 在 zài
  1. to exist; to be alive
  2. (of sb or sth) to be (located) at
  3. (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)
4 高速公路 gāosùgōnglù expressway; highway; freeway
=5 上 shǎng used in 上声 shǎngshēng
=5 上 shàng
  1. (bound form) up; upper; above; previous
  2. first (of multiple parts)
  3. to climb; to get onto; to go up
  4. to attend (class or university)
  5. (directional complement) up
  6. (noun suffix) on; above