"The dogs and cats play at night."

Translation: La hundoj kaj katoj ludas nokte.

[WartzAlle]

What is 'dum', exactly?

[mihxal]

during

[dyskos]

Would one say that using 'nokte' here as an adverb would literally translate this to "The dogs and cats night-play"? Similar in fashion to saying "Li parolas angle" -> "He English-speaks" Instead of "Li parolas la anlgla lingvo" -> "He speaks the English Language"?

Sorry for my terrible English, I'm a U.S. American.

[hidethedog]

I think a better translation for 'nokte' would be 'nightly'. Therefore, "La hundoj kaj katoj ludas nokte" would be, "The dogs and cats play nightly".
This is almost a similar usage as 'daily' in English although I admit that this translation conveys the assumption that it is a recurring event i.e. they play every night

[Lloyd199420]

Whew. Thanks. For a second there, I thought Esperanto has a genitive case.

[deactivated user]

I didn't see why "dum" is incorrect above. I put "tra la nokto". Couldn't that also make sense here?