湯姆告訴我他一直很粗心。

Tom told me he'd been careless.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 湯姆 Tāngmǔ Tom (name)
=2 告訴 gàosù to press charges; to file a complaint
=2 告訴 gàosu to tell; to inform; to let know
3 我 wǒ
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
4 他 tā
  1. (third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he; him; his
  2. (bound form) other; another; some other (as in 他日 tārì and 他人 tārén)
5 一直 yīzhí
  1. straight (in a straight line)
  2. continuously; always; all the way through
6 很 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
7 粗心 cūxīn
  1. careless
  2. thoughtless