"Мой сосед работал в Петербурге всю осень и всю зиму."
Translation:My neighbour worked in Saint Petersburg all autumn and all winter.
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I don't see. Where is this answer?
So, why can't I say: "...the whole fall and the whole winter"?
It's Accusative Case. When you are doing something for a period of time, the period of time is normally expressed using this case:
Я провёл всё лето в Испании. Я весь день занимался спортом. Я работал всю неделю над этим.
Hope that helps.
работал represents the continuous past in english too, since the verb is imperfective in this sentence, so as I read it, this sentence can also mean, "My neighbour was working in St. Petersburg all autumn and all winter."
Because the accusative is required here and осенью is instrumental. In the accusative case feminine nouns that end in a soft sign (ь) do not change in the accusative. You can tell it is accusative in this case because the adjective вся has changed to всю.
I hope that helps.
In this context the accusative case is required, so всю agrees with the feminine accusative весну (spring), осень (autumn) and зиму (winter), but if we wanted to use the word for summer it would be the neuter всё лето and if we wanted to say all day then it would be the masculine accusative весь день.
Hope that helps
The current array of correct renderings of the sentence may not include your variant. Normally if it conveys the same meaning and you select the "my answer is correct" option, the team will give it due consideration before adding it to that array for future use (or not). In this case the app was probably expecting the use of 'all' rather than 'throughout '.
Hope that helps.
