湯姆家裡很窮。

Tom's family is poor.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 湯姆 Tāngmǔ Tom (name)
2 家裡 jiālǐ home
3 很 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
4 窮 qióng
  1. poor
  2. destitute
  3. to use up
  4. to exhaust
  5. thoroughly
  6. extremely
  7. (coll.) persistently and pointlessly