我很驚訝約翰死了。

I was surprised at John's death.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 我 wǒ
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
2 很 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
3 驚訝 jīngyà
  1. amazed
  2. astonished
  3. to surprise
  4. amazing
  5. astonishment
  6. awe
4 約翰 Yuēhàn
  1. John (name)
  2. Johan (name)
  3. Johann (name)
5 死了 silě
  1. (colloquial) extremely; very
  2. (intransitive) to have died; to be dead
  3. (transitive) to have lost (one's relatives)
  4. extremely; very
  5. to have died; to be dead
  6. to have lost (one's relatives)