at evening

[constantinusphilo]

I heard an American native speaker use 'at evening'. It sounded wrong to me, so I would need some clarification, on whether it is wrong and if not, when it can be used.

 

[emsr2d2]

It's wrong. When talking about that time of day, I can't think of any context in which it could be right. In a longer sentence, those two words could go together, but not in place of "in the evening".

 

[SoothingDave]

You'll need more context than that. Are you sure they weren't using "evening" as an adjective? Like "The whole family met up at evening prayer."

 

[emsr2d2]

You'll need more context than that. Are you sure they weren't using "evening" as an adjective? Like "The whole family met up at evening prayer."

That's exactly the kind of longer sentence I had in mind when I wrote post #2.