她勉強能自己煮晚餐吃。

She was able to cook herself dinner, after a fashion.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 she
2 勉強 miǎnqiǎng
  1. to do with difficulty
  2. to force sb to do sth
  3. reluctant
  4. barely enough
=3 Néng surname Neng
=3 néng
  1. can
  2. to be able to
  3. might possibly
  4. ability
  5. (physics) energy
=3 nài
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (“to bear; to withstand”)
  2. a surname
  3. alternative form of (“to bear; to withstand”)
=3 tái
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (“name of a Chinese constellation”)
  2. alternative form of (“name of a Chinese constellation”)
=3 tài
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of / (tài, “bearing; apparition; form; shape; status; position”)
  2. alternative form of / (tài, “bearing; apparition; form; shape; status; position”)
=3 nái
  1. (obsolete) mythical three-legged soft-shelled turtle
  2. mythical three-legged soft-shelled turtle
=3 tāi
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) only used in 能始 (tāishǐ, “origin; root cause”)
  2. only used in 能始 (tāishǐ, “origin; root cause”)
=3 xióng
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (xióng, “bear”)
  2. alternative form of (xióng, “bear”)
4 自己
  1. oneself
  2. one's own
=5 zhǔ variant of zhǔ
=5 zhǔ
  1. to cook
  2. to boil
6 晚餐 wǎncān evening meal; dinner

classifiers: , ,

=7 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)
=7 chī variant of chī