他用一根棍子把老鼠打死了。

The rat was killed by him with a stick.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 他用 yòng
  1. other use
  2. other purpose
2
  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
3 gēn
  1. root
  2. basis
  3. classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings
  4. radical (chemistry)

classifier:

4 棍子 gùnzi stick; rod
=5
  1. to hold; to grasp
  2. to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate
  3. handlebar
  4. classifier: handful, bundle, bunch
  5. classifier for things with handles
  6. (used to put the object before the verb: + {noun} + {verb})
=5 handle
=5
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (pá, “to scratch”)
  2. a surname
  3. alternative form of (pá, “to scratch”)
6 老鼠 lǎoshǔ
  1. (archaic dialectal, Guilin Mandarin) bat (animal)
  2. (countable) mouse and rat in general (Classifier: m c h)
  3. bat (animal)
  4. cunning, deceitful person
  5. mouse and rat in general (Classifier: m c h)

classifier:

7 打死
  1. to kill
  2. to beat to death
=8 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=8 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)
=8 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=8 liào unofficial variant of liào