湯姆問瑪麗她能不能借些錢給他。

Tom asked Mary to lend him some money.

Tom asked Mary to loan him some money.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 湯姆 Tāng Tom (name)
2 wèn to ask; to inquire
3 瑪麗
  1. Mary or Marie (name)
  2. Mali
4 she
=5 Néng surname Neng
=5 néng
  1. can
  2. to be able to
  3. might possibly
  4. ability
  5. (physics) energy
=5 nài
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (“to bear; to withstand”)
  2. a surname
  3. alternative form of (“to bear; to withstand”)
=5 tái
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (“name of a Chinese constellation”)
  2. alternative form of (“name of a Chinese constellation”)
=5 tài
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of / (tài, “bearing; apparition; form; shape; status; position”)
  2. alternative form of / (tài, “bearing; apparition; form; shape; status; position”)
=5 nái
  1. (obsolete) mythical three-legged soft-shelled turtle
  2. mythical three-legged soft-shelled turtle
=5 tāi
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) only used in 能始 (tāishǐ, “origin; root cause”)
  2. only used in 能始 (tāishǐ, “origin; root cause”)
=5 xióng
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (xióng, “bear”)
  2. alternative form of (xióng, “bear”)
6 不能 néng
  1. cannot
  2. must not
  3. should not
=7 jiè
  1. to borrow
  2. (used in combination with gěi or chū etc) to lend
  3. to make use of; to avail oneself of
  4. (sometimes followed by zhe) by; with
=7 jiè variant of jiè
8 xiē classifier indicating a small amount or small number greater than 1: some, a few, several
=9 Qián surname Qian
=9 qián
  1. coin
  2. money
  3. unit of weight, one tenth of a tael liǎng

classifier:

=9 jiǎn
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) a kind of farm tool
  2. a kind of farm tool
=10 gěi
  1. to
  2. for
  3. for the benefit of
  4. to give
  5. to allow
  6. to do sth (for sb)
  7. (grammatical equivalent of )
  8. (grammatical equivalent of )
  9. (sentence intensifier)
=10
  1. to supply
  2. to provide
11
  1. (third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he; him; his
  2. (bound form) other; another; some other (as in 他日 and 他人 rén)