湯姆說他很高興瑪麗畢業了。

Tom said he's glad Mary has finally graduated.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 湯姆 Tāngmǔ Tom (name)
=2 說 shuì to persuade
=2 說 shuō
  1. to speak; to talk; to say
  2. to explain; to comment
  3. to scold; to tell off
  4. (bound form) theory; doctrine
=2 說 yuè
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 悅 /悦 (yuè, “happy; delighted”)
  2. alternative form of 悅 /悦 (yuè, “happy; delighted”)
=2 說 tuō
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 脫 /脱 (“to free; to relieve”)
  2. alternative form of 脫 /脱 (“to free; to relieve”)
3 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)
4 很 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
5 高興 gāoxìng
  1. happy
  2. glad
  3. willing (to do sth)
  4. in a cheerful mood
6 瑪麗 Mǎlì
  1. Mary or Marie (name)
  2. Mali
7 畢業 bìyè
  1. graduation
  2. to graduate
  3. to finish school
=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