沒有人知道東京甚麼時候會發生大地震。

No one knows when a severe earthquake will strike Tokyo.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 沒有 méiyǒu
  1. haven't
  2. hasn't
  3. doesn't exist
  4. to not have
  5. to not be
2 人 rén person; people

classifiers: 個, 位
3 知道 zhīdào
  1. to know; to become aware of
  2. also pr. zhīdao
4 東京 Dōngjīng
  1. Tokyo, capital of Japan
  2. Tonkin (northern Vietnam during the French colonial period)
=5 甚 shén variant of 什 shén
=5 甚 shèn
  1. excessive; undue
  2. to exceed; to be more than
  3. very; extremely
  4. (dialect) what; whatever (Taiwan pr. shén)
=6 麼 má exclamatory final particle
=6 麼 ma interrogative final particle
=6 麼 me suffix, used to form interrogative 什麼 shénme, what?, indefinite 這麼 zhème thus, etc
=6 麼 mó
  1. tiny
  2. insignificant
7 時候 shíhou
  1. time
  2. length of time
  3. moment
  4. period
=8 會 huì
  1. can; to have the skill; to know how to
  2. to be likely to; to be sure to
  3. to meet; to get together
  4. meeting; gathering
  5. (suffix) union; group; association
  6. (bound form) a moment (Taiwan pr. huǐ)
=8 會 kuài (bound form) to reckon accounts
=8 會 kuò only used in 會撮／会撮
9 發生 fāshēng to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out
10 大地震 dàdìzhèn large earthquake (typically with a magnitude 7 or greater)