妈妈下午要洗衣服。

Mummy has to do the washing this afternoon.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 妈妈 māma
  1. mama
  2. mommy
  3. mother

classifiers: 個, 位
2 下午 xiàwǔ
  1. afternoon
  2. p.m.

classifier: 個
=3 要 yāo (bound form) to demand; to coerce
=3 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
=3 要 yǎo
  1. (archaic) alternative form of 偠 (yǎo)
  2. alternative form of 偠 (yǎo)
  3. used in 要褭／要袅
4 洗衣 xǐyī laundry
=5 服 fú
  1. clothes
  2. dress
  3. garment
  4. to serve (in the military, a prison sentence etc)
  5. to obey
  6. to be convinced (by an argument)
  7. to convince
  8. to admire
  9. to acclimatize
  10. to take (medicine)
  11. mourning clothes
  12. to wear mourning clothes
=5 服 fù
  1. classifier for medicine: dose
  2. Taiwan pr. fú