我宁愿饿着也不吃这个。

I'd rather go hungry than eat this.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 我 wǒ
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
2 宁愿 nìngyuàn would rather ... (than ...)
3 饿 è
  1. hungry
  2. to starve (sb)
=4 着 zhāo
  1. a move in chess (Taiwan pr. zhuó)
  2. trick; tactic
  3. (dialect) okay; all right
  4. (dialect) to put in; to add
=4 着 zháo
  1. to touch
  2. to come in contact with
  3. to feel
  4. to be affected by
  5. to catch fire
  6. to burn
  7. (coll.) to fall asleep
  8. (after a verb) hitting the mark
  9. succeeding in
=4 着 zhe aspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state
=4 着 zhuó
  1. to wear (clothes)
  2. to contact
  3. to use
  4. to apply
5 也不 yěbù
  1. neither
  2. nor
=6 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)
=6 吃 chī variant of 吃 chī
7 这个 zhège
  1. (pronoun) this
  2. (adjective) this