我父亲六十岁就要退休了。

My father will retire at the age of sixty.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 我 wǒ
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
2 父亲 fùqīn
  1. father
  2. also pr. fùqin

classifier: 個
3 六十 liùshí
  1. sixty
  2. 60
=4 岁 suì
  1. variant of 岁 suì, year
  2. years old
=4 岁 suì
  1. classifier for years (of age)
  2. year
  3. year (of crop harvests)
5 就要 jiùyào
  1. will
  2. shall
  3. to be going to
6 退休 tuìxiū to retire (from the workforce); to go into retirement
=7 了 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=7 了 liǎo
  1. to finish
  2. (used with 得 dé or 不 bù after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 wàngbuliǎo "cannot forget")
  3. (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as 无 wú or 不 bù) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
  4. to understand clearly (variant of 了 liǎo)
=7 了 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=7 了 liào unofficial variant of 瞭 liào