湯姆每天都要在工作時說法語。

Tom has to speak French every day at work.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 湯姆 Tāngmǔ Tom (name)
2 每天 měitiān every day
=3 都 Dū surname Du
=3 都 dōu
  1. all; both; entirely
  2. (used for emphasis) even
  3. already
  4. (not) at all
=3 都 dū
  1. capital city
  2. metropolis
=4 要 yāo (bound form) to demand; to coerce
=4 要 yào
  1. to want; to need; to ask for
  2. will; shall; about to
  3. need to; should
  4. if (same as 要是 yàoshi)
  5. (bound form) important
=4 要 yǎo
  1. (archaic) alternative form of 偠 (yǎo)
  2. alternative form of 偠 (yǎo)
  3. used in 要褭／要袅
5 在 zài
  1. to exist; to be alive
  2. (of sb or sth) to be (located) at
  3. (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)
6 工作 gōngzuò
  1. to work
  2. (of a machine) to operate
  3. job
  4. work
  5. task

classifiers: 個, 份, 項
=7 時 Shí surname Shi
=7 時 shí
  1. o'clock
  2. time
  3. when
  4. hour
  5. season
  6. period
=8 說法 shuōfǎ to expound Buddhist teachings
=8 說法 shuōfa
  1. way of speaking
  2. wording
  3. formulation
  4. one's version (of events)
  5. statement
  6. theory
  7. hypothesis
  8. interpretation
=9 語 yǔ
  1. dialect
  2. language
  3. speech
=9 語 yù (literary) to tell; to let (sb) know