我在美国工作的父亲上周寄给我们一封信。

My father, who is now working in America, wrote us a letter last week.

My father, who is now working in the United States, wrote us a letter last week.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
2 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)
3 美国 Měiguó United States; USA; US
4 工作 gōngzuò
  1. to work
  2. (of a machine) to operate
  3. job
  4. work
  5. task

classifiers: , ,

=5 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 跑堂儿的 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
=5 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=5 really and truly
=5 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
6 父亲 qīn
  1. father
  2. also pr. qin

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=7 上周 shàngzhōu last week
=7 上周 shàngzhōu last week
8
  1. to entrust; to place in sb's care
  2. (bound form) to depend on; to attach oneself to; to reside temporarily
  3. (bound form) foster (as in 寄女 nu: foster daughter)
  4. to send by post; to mail
=9 gěi
  1. to
  2. for
  3. for the benefit of
  4. to give
  5. to allow
  6. to do sth (for sb)
  7. (grammatical equivalent of )
  8. (grammatical equivalent of )
  9. (sentence intensifier)
=9
  1. to supply
  2. to provide
10 我们 men we; us; ourselves; our
11
  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
=12 Fēng surname Feng
=12 fēng
  1. to confer
  2. to grant
  3. to bestow a title
  4. to seal
  5. classifier for sealed objects, esp. letters
13 xìn
  1. letter
  2. mail
  3. to trust
  4. to believe
  5. to profess faith in
  6. truthful
  7. confidence
  8. trust
  9. at will
  10. at random

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