所有人除了汤姆都吃了比萨。

Everyone except Tom ate pizza.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 所有人 suǒyǒurén
  1. everyone
  2. owner
2 除了 chúle
  1. apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他，除了他，谁也没来 chúletā,shéiyěméilái "apart from him, nobody came", or to include, as in 除了英語，除了英语，他也会法语 chúle Yīngyǔ,tāyěhuì Fǎyǔ "in addition to English, he also knows French")
  2. (used to introduce one of two habitual alternatives in the pattern 除了 chúle + A + 就是 jiùshì + B, "either A or B")
3 汤姆 Tāngmǔ Tom (name)
=4 都 Dū surname Du
=4 都 dōu
  1. all; both; entirely
  2. (used for emphasis) even
  3. already
  4. (not) at all
=4 都 dū
  1. capital city
  2. metropolis
=5 吃 chī
  1. to eat; to consume
  2. to eat at (a cafeteria etc)
  3. to eradicate; to destroy
  4. to absorb
  5. to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
=5 吃 chī variant of 吃 chī
=6 了 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=6 了 liǎo
  1. to finish
  2. (used with 得 dé or 不 bù after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 wàngbuliǎo "cannot forget")
  3. (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as 无 wú or 不 bù) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
  4. to understand clearly (variant of 了 liǎo)
=6 了 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=6 了 liào unofficial variant of 瞭 liào
=7 比萨 Bǐsà Pisa, town in Toscana, Italy
=7 比萨 bǐsà (loanword) pizza