汤姆买不起这个东西。

Tom can't afford this.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 汤姆 Tāngmǔ Tom (name)
2 买不起 mǎibuqǐ
  1. cannot afford
  2. can't afford buying
3 这个 zhège
  1. (pronoun) this
  2. (adjective) this
=4 东西 dōngxī east and west
=4 东西 dōngxi
  1. thing
  2. stuff
  3. person

classifiers: 個, 件