汤姆能游得很好。

Tom can swim pretty well.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 汤姆 Tāng Tom (name)
=2 Néng surname Neng
=2 néng
  1. can
  2. to be able to
  3. might possibly
  4. ability
  5. (physics) energy
=2 nài
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (“to bear; to withstand”)
  2. a surname
  3. alternative form of (“to bear; to withstand”)
=2 tái
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (“name of a Chinese constellation”)
  2. alternative form of (“name of a Chinese constellation”)
=2 tài
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of / (tài, “bearing; apparition; form; shape; status; position”)
  2. alternative form of / (tài, “bearing; apparition; form; shape; status; position”)
=2 nái
  1. (obsolete) mythical three-legged soft-shelled turtle
  2. mythical three-legged soft-shelled turtle
=2 tāi
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) only used in 能始 (tāishǐ, “origin; root cause”)
  2. only used in 能始 (tāishǐ, “origin; root cause”)
=2 xióng
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (xióng, “bear”)
  2. alternative form of (xióng, “bear”)
=3 Yóu surname You
=3 yóu
  1. to swim
  2. variant of yóu
=3 yóu
  1. to walk
  2. to tour
  3. to roam
  4. to travel
4 得很 dehěn (after an adjective) very
=5 hǎo
  1. good
  2. appropriate; proper
  3. all right!
  4. (before a verb) easy to
  5. (before a verb) good to
  6. (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so
  7. (verb complement indicating completion)
  8. (of two people) close; on intimate terms
  9. (after a personal pronoun) hello
=5 hào to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to