汤姆有很多帮他的朋友。

Tom has plenty of friends to help him.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 汤姆 Tāng Tom (name)
=2 yǒu
  1. to have; there is
  2. (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意 yǒu intentional)
=2 yòu
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (yòu, “again”)
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (yòu, “and; with a remainder of (when dividing an integer by ten)”)
  3. alternative form of (yòu, “again”)
  4. alternative form of (yòu, “and; with a remainder of (when dividing an integer by ten)”)
3 很多 hěnduō many; much; a lot
=4 bāng old variant of bāng
=4 bāng old variant of bāng
=4 bāng
  1. to help
  2. to assist
  3. to support
  4. for sb (i.e. as a help)
  5. hired (as worker)
  6. side (of pail, boat etc)
  7. outer layer
  8. upper (of a shoe)
  9. group
  10. gang
  11. clique
  12. party
  13. secret society
5
  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)
=6 de
  1. of; ~'s (possessive particle)
  2. (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)
  3. (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
  4. (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 de "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的 pǎotángrde "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 xīnde "new one")
  5. also pr. or di in poetry and songs
=6 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=6 really and truly
=6 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
=7 朋友 péngyou friend

classifiers: ,

=7 朋友 péngyǒu
  1. (archaic) large number of retainers
  2. (archaic, Ming dynasty) designation given by government bureaucrats to Confucian students
  3. designation given by government bureaucrats to Confucian students
  4. large number of retainers