他向银行申请了购房贷款。
He applied for a purchase loan from the bank.
The above translation has been gained from DeepL.
Currently I've been struggling for understanding 购房贷款 which is used in the original sentence.
购(to purchase)房贷(housing loan)款(fund(s)?)
I've read 购房贷款 as above way and completely has been confused to understand the original sentence.
As I remove the both letters(购 and 款) then I have no problem.
Can you explain me how 购 and 款 work in the original sentence?
购房贷款 just means mortgage. Since Chinese is quite analytic, we put multiple words together to form a new meaning.
购=purchase, 房=house, 贷款=loan. Here 贷款 is formed from 贷=loan（verb） 款=fund, clearly 贷款 itself is a compound word too.
So basically it means "fund loaned for purchasing a house", which conveniently in English is just one word, mortgage.
it is just like things like 飞(flying)机(machine) = airplane or 计算（computing）机（machine）= computer. Think them as the compound word as a whole: multiple Chinese characters as one English word.
购房贷款 is a noun, (or noun phrase), in the sentence 申请了购房贷款, used as the objective of the verb 申请了.
购房贷款 = 购房的贷款, with the word 的 omitted. 购房的 is an adjective modifying the noun 贷款. In Chinese, noun + 的 = adjective, such as 购房的.
购房 and 贷款 are both nouns in the form of verb + objective (VO).
房贷 is a noun that has the same meaning as 购房贷款. 房贷 is in the form of noun + noun. The first noun 房 is used as an adjective, therefore 房贷 is a word of adj + n. 房 = 用于购买房子的.
The formation of adj + n (or n + n) is a very useful method in constructing words in Chinese, such as 书房，图书馆，商店，火车.
房贷 is the abbreviation of the official term 购房贷款 or 房屋贷款, similar to "housing loan" for "house purchase loan" and often addressed as "mortgage".
