我想買點東西吃。

I want to buy something to eat.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 我 wǒ
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
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 買點 mǎidiǎn “buying point” (of a product); certain attributes of a product which are valued by purchasers
=4 東西 dōngxī east and west
=4 東西 dōngxi
  1. thing
  2. stuff
  3. person

classifiers: 個, 件
=5 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)
=5 吃 chī variant of 吃 chī