我欠你四十塊錢。

I owe you forty dollars.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 我 wǒ
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
2 欠 qiàn
  1. to owe
  2. to lack
  3. (literary) to be deficient in
  4. (bound form) yawn
  5. to raise slightly (a part of one's body)
=3 你 nǐ you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您 nín)
=3 你 nǐ you (Note: In Taiwan, 妳 is used to address females, but in mainland China, it is not commonly used. Instead, 你 is used to address both males and females.)
4 四十 sìshí
  1. forty
  2. 40
5 塊 kuài
  1. lump; chunk; piece
  2. classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc
  3. (coll.) classifier for money and currency units
=6 錢 Qián surname Qian
=6 錢 qián
  1. coin
  2. money
  3. unit of weight, one tenth of a tael 兩 liǎng

classifier: 筆
=6 錢 jiǎn
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) a kind of farm tool
  2. a kind of farm tool