wǒmen shuàn yángròu.

In this sentence, 涮 means to swish thin slices of food briefly in boiling broth, usually in a hot pot.

So 涮羊肉 is not just cook lamb in a general sense. It specifically refers to the hot-pot style of cooking lamb by dipping or swishing it in the soup.

This verb is very common in food contexts, especially with 火锅.

This is the normal Chinese Subject–Verb–Object order:

• 我们 = subject, we
• 涮 = verb
• 羊肉 = object, lamb / mutton

So the structure is directly parallel to English:

• We eat lamb
• We cook lamb
• We swish lamb in hot pot

Chinese often keeps this straightforward word order in simple sentences.

Chinese does not use articles like a, an, and the the way English does.

So 羊肉 can mean:

• lamb
• the lamb
• some lamb
• lamb meat

The exact interpretation depends on context. In a food sentence like this, it usually just means lamb or lamb meat in a general sense.

Because 羊肉 here is being used as a general mass noun, like meat in English.

When talking about meat in general, Chinese often does not need a measure word:

• 吃羊肉 = eat lamb
• 买牛肉 = buy beef

But if you want to count or specify an amount, then you usually need a measure word or quantity expression, such as:

• 一盘羊肉 = one plate of lamb
• 两斤羊肉 = two jin of lamb

Chinese nouns usually do not show singular/plural the way English nouns do.

So 羊肉 does not tell you by itself whether it is:

• one portion of lamb
• several pieces of lamb
• lamb in general

In this sentence, it is best understood as lamb meat generally, not as a countable singular item.

羊 means sheep/goat as an animal category, while 羊肉 means mutton/lamb meat.

The second character 肉 means meat. So:

• 羊 = sheep/goat
• 羊肉 = sheep/goat meat, usually translated as lamb or mutton depending on context

In food vocabulary, adding 肉 is very common:

• 牛肉 = beef
• 猪肉 = pork
• 鸡肉 = chicken

涮 is pronounced shuàn with the fourth tone.

A simple approximation is shwahn with a sharp falling tone.

A few pronunciation notes:

• sh- is like the sh in ship, but with the tongue curled a bit farther back
• -uan here sounds roughly like wahn
• the fourth tone falls strongly, like giving a firm command

So try: shuàn!

Because 们 is usually pronounced in the neutral tone in 我们.

So it is:

• 我 = wǒ
• 们 = men (neutral tone)

Together: wǒmen

This is very common with plural pronouns:

• 我们 = we/us
• 你们 = you plural
• 他们 = they/them

In this sentence, 我们 is the subject, so it means we.

Chinese pronouns do not change form the way English pronouns do. So 我们 can mean either we or us, depending on sentence position.

Examples:

• 我们涮羊肉。 = We swish lamb in hot pot.
• 他请我们涮羊肉。 = He invites us to have lamb hot pot.

Yes, in the right context it can feel close to that.

Literally, 我们涮羊肉 means We cook/swish lamb in hot pot. But in natural conversation, Chinese present-tense sentences can sometimes express a current plan or suggestion, depending on context.

For example, if friends are deciding what to eat, 我们涮羊肉吧 would more clearly mean:

• Let’s have lamb hot pot.

The particle 吧 makes the suggestion much more obvious.

Yes, very often it is.

涮羊肉 is a common set phrase referring to instant-boiled lamb, especially the Beijing-style hot-pot dish. So learners may see it as:

• a verb-object phrase: to swish/cook lamb in hot pot
• or almost like the name of a dish/activity

That is why this sentence sounds very natural and idiomatic.

Yes, but the meaning is less specific.

• 我们吃羊肉。 = We eat lamb.
• 我们涮羊肉。 = We have lamb by swishing it in hot pot.

So 吃羊肉 focuses on eating lamb, while 涮羊肉 focuses on the particular hot-pot cooking method.

Chinese verbs do not change form for tense the way English verbs do.

So 我们涮羊肉 could mean different things depending on context, such as:

• We are having lamb hot pot
• We eat lamb hot pot-style
• We’re going to have lamb hot pot

Time is often understood from context or added with time words:

• 今天晚上我们涮羊肉。 = Tonight we’re having lamb hot pot.
• 昨天我们涮羊肉了。 = Yesterday we had lamb hot pot.

Yes, if the context already makes it clear.

Chinese often drops subjects when they are obvious. So in conversation, people might simply say:

• 涮羊肉。

Depending on the situation, that could mean something like:

• We’re having lamb hot pot.
• Let’s have lamb hot pot.
• To swish lamb in hot pot.

But in a full basic sentence for learners, 我们涮羊肉 is clearer.