"He likes singing in the rain."
Translation:他喜欢在雨里唱歌。
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I wrote 他喜欢在下雨里唱歌，and it was marked wrong. Is including 下 grammatically wrong, or would it just refer more specifically to "falling rain" ratger than just "rain"?
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Try 雨下 (literally "under the rain") or 雨里 (literally "inside the rain") instead. To me, 下雨 means "to rain" so to say "in the rain" I think either of the first two options make more sense.
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Do I need to include "歌"? I thought "歌" meant song, so "唱歌" would be "singing songs." And the translation is not "He likes singing songs in the rain." Can I not use "唱" by itself to mean "sing?"
Mandarin chinese usually avoid monosyllabic words, because there is a lot of homophone
It's like how you cannot say 吃 without an object. And when there is none in the English, you put 吃饭.
That's what all the examples on Tatoeba have. And 里 is like "inside of" after all. I have serious doubts whether it's actually good Chinese, or just translationese.
In Russian and Ukrainian you literally say 'under rain' and not 'in'.
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下雨的时候他喜欢唱歌. (xià yǔ de shí hou tā xǐ huan chàng gē). = Rejected: 08 mrt. 2020. When I look to your sentence, my translation should be accepted too!
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下雨 = to rain (a verb)
雨 = rain (noun-thing)
雨里 = in the rain (noun-place)
When you want to say something is happening or located at a certain place you use 在 (to be located at).
他在家 = He is at home
他在家睡觉 = He is at home sleeping / He is sleeping at home
他喜欢 + 在家 + 睡觉
He likes + to be located at home + to sleep / He likes sleeping at home
Your sentence is missing the location aspect. You have a subject followed by 3 verbs. He + likes + to rain + to sing. You need to say where he likes to sing by using "在 + place".