湯姆怎麼知道你會彈鋼琴？

How did Tom know you could play the piano?

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 湯姆 Tāngmǔ Tom (name)
2 怎麼 zěnme
  1. how?
  2. what?
  3. why?
3 知道 zhīdào
  1. to know; to become aware of
  2. also pr. zhīdao
=4 你 nǐ you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您 nín)
=4 你 nǐ you (Note: In Taiwan, 妳 is used to address females, but in mainland China, it is not commonly used. Instead, 你 is used to address both males and females.)
=5 會 huì
  1. can; to have the skill; to know how to
  2. to be likely to; to be sure to
  3. to meet; to get together
  4. meeting; gathering
  5. (suffix) union; group; association
  6. (bound form) a moment (Taiwan pr. huǐ)
=5 會 kuài (bound form) to reckon accounts
=5 會 kuò only used in 會撮／会撮
=6 彈 dàn
  1. crossball
  2. bullet
  3. shot
  4. shell
  5. ball
=6 彈 tán
  1. to pluck (a string)
  2. to play (a string instrument)
  3. to spring or leap
  4. to shoot (e.g. with a catapult)
  5. (of cotton) to fluff or tease
  6. to flick
  7. to flip
  8. to accuse
  9. to impeach
  10. elastic (of materials)
7 鋼琴 gāngqín piano

classifiers: 架, 臺