汤姆知道了玛丽是一名老师。

Tom knew that Mary was a teacher.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 汤姆 Tāngmǔ Tom (name)
2 知道了 zhīdàole
  1. OK!
  2. Got it!
3 玛丽 Mǎlì
  1. Mary or Marie (name)
  2. Mali
=4 是 shì
  1. to be (followed by substantives only)
  2. correct; right; true
  3. (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well
  4. (adverb for emphatic assertion)
=4 是 shì variant of 是 shì
5 一名 yīmíng
  1. (literary) an alternate name
  2. an alternate name
  3. one person
6 老师 lǎoshī teacher

classifiers: 個, 位