瑪莉吃什麼都要加鹽。

Mary puts salt on just about everything she eats.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 瑪莉 Mǎlì a transliteration of the English female given name Mary
=2 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)
=2 吃 chī variant of 吃 chī
3 什麼 shénme
  1. what?
  2. something; anything
=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 要 yāo (bound form) to demand; to coerce
=5 要 yào
  1. to want; to need; to ask for
  2. will; shall; about to
  3. need to; should
  4. if (same as 要是 yàoshi)
  5. (bound form) important
=5 要 yǎo
  1. (archaic) alternative form of 偠 (yǎo)
  2. alternative form of 偠 (yǎo)
  3. used in 要褭／要袅
6 加鹽 jiāyán
  1. (cryptography) to salt
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see 加 (jiā), 鹽 /盐; to add salt
  3. to salt