Sentence Composition
| 1 | 湯姆 | Tāngmǔ | Tom (name) |
| 2 | 母親 | mǔqīn |
classifier: 個 |
| =3 | 是 | shì |
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| =3 | 是 | shì | variant of 是 shì |
| =4 | 漢堡 | Hànbǎo | Hamburg (German city) |
| =4 | 漢堡 | hànbǎo | (loanword) hamburger |
| 5 | 人 | rén | person; people |
| 6 | 父親 | fùqīn |
classifier: 個 |
| =7 | 是 | shì |
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| =7 | 是 | shì | variant of 是 shì |
| 8 | 慕尼黑 | Mùníhēi | München or Munich, capital of Bavaria, Germany |
| 9 | 人 | rén | person; people |