湯姆要問瑪莉會不會游泳。

Tom is going to ask Mary if she can swim.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 湯姆 Tāngmǔ Tom (name)
=2 要 yāo (bound form) to demand; to coerce
=2 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
=2 要 yǎo
  1. (archaic) alternative form of 偠 (yǎo)
  2. alternative form of 偠 (yǎo)
  3. used in 要褭／要袅
3 問 wèn to ask; to inquire
4 瑪莉 Mǎlì a transliteration of the English female given name Mary
5 會不會 huìbùhuì
  1. (posing a question: whether sb, something) can or cannot?
  2. is able to or not
=6 游泳 yóuyǒng
  1. swimming
  2. to swim
=6 游泳 yóuyǒng misspelling of 游泳 (yóuyǒng)