湯姆跟我說,他很確定那件事會發生。

Tom told me he was sure that that was going to happen.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 湯姆 Tāng Tom (name)
2 gēn
  1. heel
  2. to follow closely
  3. to go with
  4. (of a woman) to marry sb
  5. with
  6. compared with
  7. to
  8. towards
  9. and (joining two nouns)
3 我說 shuō
  1. I wondered that and now it makes sense that...
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see , /.
4
  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 and 他人 rén)
5 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
6 確定 quèdìng
  1. definite
  2. certain
  3. fixed
  4. to fix (on sth)
  5. to determine
  6. to be sure
  7. to ensure
  8. to make certain
  9. to ascertain
  10. to clinch
  11. to recognize
  12. to confirm
  13. OK (on computer dialog box)
=7 surname Na
=7 Nuó surname Nuo
=7 variant of
=7
  1. (specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. nèi)
  2. (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations)
  3. then (in that case)
=7 nuó
  1. (archaic) many
  2. beautiful
  3. how
  4. old variant of nuó
8 jiàn
  1. item
  2. component
  3. classifier for events, things, clothes etc
=9 shì
  1. matter
  2. thing
  3. item
  4. work
  5. affair

classifiers: , ,

=9
  1. alternative form of (zì, “to establish”)
  2. alternative form of (zì, “to stab”)
=10 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)
=10 kuài (bound form) to reckon accounts
=10 kuò only used in 會撮会撮
11 發生 shēng to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out