汤姆是不是麻烦事很多？

Is Tom in a lot of trouble?

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 汤姆 Tāngmǔ Tom (name)
2 是不是 shìbùshì
  1. is or isn't
  2. yes or no
  3. whether or not
3 麻烦 máfan
  1. trouble; inconvenience
  2. inconvenient; troublesome; annoying
  3. to bother sb; to put sb to trouble
=4 事 shì
  1. matter
  2. thing
  3. item
  4. work
  5. affair

classifiers: 件, 樁, 回
=4 事 zì
  1. alternative form of 倳 (zì, “to establish”)
  2. alternative form of 剚 (zì, “to stab”)
5 很多 hěnduō many; much; a lot