湯姆大概不知道為什麼野餐取消了。

Tom probably doesn't know why the picnic was canceled.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 湯姆 Tāng Tom (name)
2 大概 gài
  1. roughly
  2. probably
  3. rough
  4. approximate
  5. about
  6. general idea
3 不知 zhī
  1. not to know
  2. unaware
  3. unknowingly
  4. fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc)
=4 dào
  1. (bound form) way; reason; principle
  2. (bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization
  3. (Daoism) the Way; the Dao
  4. to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel)
  5. (bound form) to express; to extend (polite words)
  6. classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks, shadows etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process
  7. (old) circuit (administrative division)

classifiers: ,

=4 dǎo
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of / (dǎo, “to direct; to guide; to lead; to conduct”)
  2. alternative form of / (dǎo, “to direct; to guide; to lead; to conduct”)
5 為什麼 wèishénme
  1. why?
  2. for what reason?
6 野餐 cān
  1. picnic
  2. to have a picnic
7 取消 xiāo to cancel; to call off; to revoke; to rescind
=8 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=8 liǎo
  1. to finish
  2. (used with or after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 wàngbuliǎo "cannot forget")
  3. (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as or ) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
  4. to understand clearly (variant of liǎo)
=8 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=8 liào unofficial variant of liào