听说意大利语是一门很难的语言 。

I've heard Italian is a tricky language.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 听说 tīngshuō
  1. to hear (sth said)
  2. one hears (that)
  3. hearsay
  4. listening and speaking
=2 意大利语 Italian (language)
=2 意大利语 the Italian language
=3 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)
=3 shì variant of shì
4 一门 mén
  1. (dialectal) continuously; constantly
  2. (literary) a door
  3. (literary) a single source; a single origin
  4. (literary) a way; a means
  5. a cannon
  6. a door
  7. a family; a clan
  8. a kind; the same kind
  9. a single source; a single origin
  10. a skill
  11. a style; a faction; a denomination
  12. a subject of study
  13. a way; a means
  14. an event or occurrence
  15. continuously; constantly
  16. the same school or teacher
5 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
=6 nán
  1. difficult (to...)
  2. problem
  3. difficulty
  4. difficult
  5. not good
=6 nàn
  1. disaster
  2. distress
  3. to scold
=7 de
  1. of; ~'s (possessive particle)
  2. (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)
  3. (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
  4. (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 de "one made of leather" or 跑堂儿的 pǎotángrde "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 xīnde "new one")
  5. also pr. or di in poetry and songs
=7 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=7 really and truly
=7 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
=8 语言 yán language

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=8 语言 yán
  1. (literary) to tell
  2. to tell