雅妮想学习如何把棋下得更好。

Yanni wants to learn to play chess well.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 elegant
2
  1. girl
  2. phonetic "ni" (in female names)
  3. Taiwan pr.
3 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)
4 学习 xué
  1. to learn
  2. to study
5 如何
  1. how
  2. what way
  3. what
=6
  1. to hold; to grasp
  2. to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate
  3. handlebar
  4. classifier: handful, bundle, bunch
  5. classifier for things with handles
  6. (used to put the object before the verb: + {noun} + {verb})
=6 handle
=6
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (pá, “to scratch”)
  2. a surname
  3. alternative form of (pá, “to scratch”)
=7 variant of
=7
  1. chess
  2. chess-like game
  3. a game of chess
  4. chess piece

classifiers: , ,

=7 variant of
=7
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) root, basis, alternative form of (jī)
  2. root, basis, alternative form of (jī)
8 xià
  1. down
  2. downwards
  3. below
  4. lower
  5. later
  6. next (week etc)
  7. second (of two parts)
  8. to decline
  9. to go down
  10. to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc)
  11. measure word to show the frequency of an action
=9
  1. to obtain
  2. to get
  3. to gain
  4. to catch (a disease)
  5. proper
  6. suitable
  7. proud
  8. contented
  9. to allow
  10. to permit
  11. ready
  12. finished
=9 used in 得瑟 se
=9 de structural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to following phrase indicating effect, degree, possibility etc
=9 děi
  1. to have to
  2. must
  3. ought to
  4. to need to
10 更好 gènghǎo to be better (as in, more desirable or satisfactory)