他的車在掉進河裡前翻轉了好幾次。

His car flipped over several times before it fell into the river.

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Sentence Composition

1
  1. (third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he; him; his
  2. (bound form) other; another; some other (as in 他日 and 他人 rén)
=2 de
  1. of; ~'s (possessive particle)
  2. (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)
  3. (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
  4. (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 de "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的 pǎotángrde "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 xīnde "new one")
  5. also pr. or di in poetry and songs
=2 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=2 really and truly
=2 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
=3 Chē surname Che
=3 chē
  1. car
  2. vehicle
  3. machine
  4. to shape with a lathe
  5. Kangxi radical 159

classifier:

=3
  1. war chariot (archaic)
  2. rook (in Chinese chess)
  3. rook (in chess)
4 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)
=5 diào
  1. to fall
  2. to drop
  3. to lag behind
  4. to lose
  5. to go missing
  6. to reduce
  7. fall (in prices)
  8. to lose (value, weight etc)
  9. to wag
  10. to swing
  11. to turn
  12. to change
  13. to exchange
  14. to swap
  15. to show off
  16. to shed (hair)
  17. (used after certain verbs to express completion, fulfillment, removal etc)
=5 nuò
  1. (obsolete) to hold; to wield; to bear; to lift
  2. to hold; to wield; to bear; to lift
6 jìn
  1. to go forward
  2. to advance
  3. to go in
  4. to enter
  5. to put in
  6. to submit
  7. to take in
  8. to admit
  9. (math.) base of a number system
  10. classifier for sections in a building or residential compound
7
  1. (bound form) the Yellow River
  2. (bound form) the Milky Way
  3. (bound form) (on restaurant menus) rice noodles 河粉 fěn

classifiers: ,

8
  1. lining
  2. interior
  3. inside
  4. internal
  5. also written
9 qián
  1. front
  2. forward
  3. ahead
  4. first
  5. top (followed by a number)
  6. future
  7. ago
  8. before
  9. BC (e.g. 293)
  10. former
  11. formerly
10 翻轉 fānzhuǎn
  1. to roll
  2. to turn over
  3. to invert
  4. to flip
=11 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=11 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)
=11 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=11 liào unofficial variant of liào
12 好幾 hǎo
  1. several
  2. quite a few
13
  1. next in sequence
  2. second
  3. the second (day, time etc)
  4. secondary
  5. vice-
  6. sub-
  7. infra-
  8. inferior quality
  9. substandard
  10. order
  11. sequence
  12. hypo- (chemistry)
  13. classifier for enumerated events: time