湯姆知道瑪麗想做甚麼。

Tom knew what Mary intended to do.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 湯姆 Tāngmǔ Tom (name)
2 知道 zhīdào
  1. to know; to become aware of
  2. also pr. zhīdao
3 瑪麗 Mǎlì
  1. Mary or Marie (name)
  2. Mali
4 想 xiǎng
  1. to think (about)
  2. to think of; to devise
  3. to think (that); to believe (that)
  4. to desire; to want (to)
  5. to miss (feel wistful about the absence of)
5 做 zuò
  1. to make; to produce
  2. to write; to compose
  3. to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc)
  4. (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc)
  5. (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for
  6. to assume (an air or manner)
=6 甚 shén variant of 什 shén
=6 甚 shèn
  1. excessive; undue
  2. to exceed; to be more than
  3. very; extremely
  4. (dialect) what; whatever (Taiwan pr. shén)
=7 麼 má exclamatory final particle
=7 麼 ma interrogative final particle
=7 麼 me suffix, used to form interrogative 什么 shénme, what?, indefinite 这么 zhème thus, etc
=7 麼 mó
  1. tiny
  2. insignificant