我起了个大早为了赶第一班火车。 我起了個大早為了趕第一班火車。 我起了個大早為了趕第一班火車。

I got up early enough to catch the first train.

Simplified

我起了个大早为了赶第一班火车。

Traditional (Taiwan)

我起了個大早為了趕第一班火車。

Pinyin

Wǒ qǐle gè dà zǎo wèile gǎn dìyī bān huǒchē.

Bopomofo

ㄨㄛˇ ㄑㄧˇ ˙ㄌㄜ ㄍㄜˋ ㄉㄚˋ ㄗㄠˇ ㄨㄟˋ ˙ㄌㄜ ㄍㄢˇ ㄉㄧˋ ㄧ ㄅㄢ ㄏㄨㄛˇ ㄔㄜ。

Written with HSK 4 vocabulary, at CEFR level B1.

Words in this sentence

• 我(wǒ)I
• 起(qǐ)rise
• 了(le)marks a completed action
• 个(gè)(classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier)
• 大(dà)big
• 早(zǎo)early
• 为(wèi)了(le)for
• 赶(gǎn)overtake
• 第(dì)一(yī)first
• 班(bān)team
• 火(huǒ)车(chē)train

This sentence is from Tatoeba, contributed by fucongcong, with the English translation by CK. It is used here under CC BY 2.0 FR.

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