他不是总来晚。

He doesn't always come late.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 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)
=2 不是 bùshì
  1. no
  2. is not
  3. not
=2 不是 bùshi fault; blame
3 总 zǒng
  1. (bound form) general; overall
  2. to sum up
  3. in every case; always; invariably
  4. anyway; after all; eventually; sooner or later
  5. surely
  6. (after a person's name) abbr. for 總經理 zǒngjīnglǐ or 總編 zǒngbiān etc
4 来 lái
  1. to come
  2. (used as a substitute for a more specific verb)
  3. hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來 huílai)
  4. ever since (as in 自古以來 zìgǔyǐlái)
  5. for the past (amount of time)
  6. (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世 láishì)
  7. (between two verbs) in order to
  8. (after a round number) approximately
  9. (used after 得 dé to indicate possibility, as in 談得來 tándelái, or after 不 bù to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來 chībulái)
5 晚 wǎn
  1. evening
  2. night
  3. late