我数年来都和这家商店做生意。

I've dealt with this store for years.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
2 数年 shùnián
  1. several years
  2. many years
3 lái
  1. to come
  2. (used as a substitute for a more specific verb)
  3. hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來 huílai)
  4. ever since (as in 自古以來 lái)
  5. for the past (amount of time)
  6. (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世 láishì)
  7. (between two verbs) in order to
  8. (after a round number) approximately
  9. (used after to indicate possibility, as in 談得來 tándelái, or after to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來 chībulái)
=4 surname Du
=4 dōu
  1. all; both; entirely
  2. (used for emphasis) even
  3. already
  4. (not) at all
=4
  1. capital city
  2. metropolis
=5 old variant of
=5 surname He
=5
  1. (joining two nouns) and; together with; with (Taiwan pr. hàn)
  2. (math.) sum
  3. to make peace
  4. (sports) to draw; to tie
  5. (bound form) harmonious
  6. (bound form) Japan; Japanese
=5
  1. to compose a poem in reply (to sb's poem) using the same rhyme sequence
  2. to join in the singing
  3. to chime in with others
=5 to complete a set in mahjong or playing cards
=5 huó
  1. to combine a powdery substance (flour, plaster etc) with water
  2. Taiwan pr. huò
=5 huò
  1. to mix (ingredients) together
  2. to blend
  3. classifier for rinses of clothes
  4. classifier for boilings of medicinal herbs
=5 (literary) harmonious (variant of )
=5 huo
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) warm
  2. warm
=6 zhè
  1. (pronoun) this; these
  2. (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun)
  3. (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. zhèi, esp. in Beijing)
=6 zhèi (coll.) this
=7 jiā used in 傢伙 jiāhuo and 傢俱 jiā
=7 jiā
  1. home
  2. family
  3. (polite) my (sister, uncle etc)
  4. classifier for families or businesses
  5. refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China
  6. noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian

classifier:

=7 jie only used in 大家 (dàgū)
8 商店 shāngdiàn store; shop

classifiers: ,

=9 做生意 zuòshēng to do business
=9 做生意 zuòshēngyi to do business; to engage in commercial activities; to trade