How to say "Wednesday night"

[patricia25]

I am obviously a beginner. How does one say Wednesday night?

On Wednesday night, it rained a lot at night.

Wan3shang de xing1qi1 san1, hen3 xia4yu3.

or

Xing1qi1 san1 de wan3shang, hen3 xia4yu3.

I can't seem to find a tutorial online.

Thank you in advance for your help!

[skylee]

Xing1qi1 san1 de wan3shang, hen3 xia4yu3.

The first part is ok. For "it rained a lot at night." (do you need to mention "at night" again?), consider 下了很大的雨 （xia4 le hen3da4 de yu3). I am not good at writing in pinyin so please forgive me for any mistakes here.

[patricia25]

Xiexie!

[jbradfor]

Xing1qi1 san1 de wan3shang

I don't recall ever hearing a 的 between time units. Am I wrong about this and it's common, or is it uncommon but OK, or just wrong?

hen3 xia4yu3

This I believe is wrong. While hen3 (很) is typically translated as "very", it functions some-what kind-of like a verb in Chinese. So you can't use hen3 to modify a verb (here, xia4 下). As skylee pointed out, you need to change the word order so it modifies an adjective (here, da4 (大)).

EDIT: stupid explanation above. Try again: just as in English, hen3 (很） can not modify a verb. Here, xia4(下) is a verb. As skylee pointed out, you need to change the word order so it modifies an adjective (here, da4 (大)).

Edited August 8, 2011 at 12:24 AM by jbradfor

[daofeishi]

hen3 (很） can not modify a verb

我很尊重jbradfor，很喜欢他发的帖子，不过指出他犯的错误，我很担心他会嫌弃我。

[patricia25]

ok, thank you everyone!

[jbradfor]

daofeishi, +1 to you. OK, OK, hen3 can modify a verb. 我很写错 No, wait.....

[declan]

it should be "星期三的晚上下了很大的雨"