伸懒腰

伸懶腰

shēn lǎnyāo

verb #51,007

Meanings

HSK 4

小猫一睡醒就伸懒腰。

Xiǎomāo yí shuìxǐng jiù shēn lǎnyāo.

The kitten stretches as soon as it wakes up.

HSK 5

在电脑前坐了一上午，他站起来伸了个懒腰。

Zài diànnǎo qián zuò le yí shàngwǔ, tā zhàn qǐlai shēn le ge lǎnyāo.

After sitting at the computer all morning, he stood up and had a good stretch.

grammar

A separable verb-object phrase: 伸 'to stretch out' takes 懒腰 as its object, and the usual spoken form puts words between them: 伸了个懒腰, 'had a stretch'.

memory

Literally 'to stretch the lazy waist': the long, slow stretch of someone shaking off sleep.

伸 shēn

懒 lǎn

腰 yāo