湯姆已經好多年沒見到瑪麗了。

Tom hasn't seen Mary in years.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 湯姆 Tāngmǔ Tom (name)
2 已經 yǐjīng already
3 好多 hǎoduō
  1. many
  2. quite a lot
  3. much better
=4 年 Nián surname Nian
=4 年 nián year

classifier: 個
=4 年 nián
  1. grain
  2. harvest (old)
  3. variant of 年 nián
=5 沒 méi (negative prefix for verbs) have not; not
=5 沒 mò
  1. drowned
  2. to end
  3. to die
  4. to inundate
6 見到 jiàndào to see
7 瑪麗 Mǎlì
  1. Mary or Marie (name)
  2. Mali
=8 了 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=8 了 liǎo
  1. to finish
  2. (used with 得 dé or 不 bù after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 wàngbuliǎo "cannot forget")
  3. (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as 无 wú or 不 bù) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
  4. to understand clearly (variant of 了 liǎo)
=8 了 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=8 了 liào unofficial variant of 瞭 liào