汤姆想吃的是什么？

What is it that Tom wants to eat?

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 汤姆 Tāngmǔ Tom (name)
2 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)
3 吃的 chīde (coll.) food
=4 是 shì
  1. to be (followed by substantives only)
  2. correct; right; true
  3. (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well
  4. (adverb for emphatic assertion)
=4 是 shì variant of 是 shì
5 什么 shénme
  1. what?
  2. something; anything