您做什麼工作為生？

What do you do for a living?

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 您 nín you (courteous, as opposed to informal 你 nǐ)
2 做什麼 zuòshénme
  1. (dialectal) why; what for
  2. what to do
  3. why; what for
3 工作 gōngzuò
  1. to work
  2. (of a machine) to operate
  3. job
  4. work
  5. task

classifiers: 個, 份, 項
4 為生 wéishēng to make a living