Questions & Answers about В выходные я хочу поработать в саду.
Literally, в выходные means “into / on the days off”.
- выходной день = a day off
- выходные (дни) = days off, usually understood as the weekend
With time expressions, Russian often uses в + accusative plural to mean “on [those days]”:
- в выходные – on the weekend
- в каникулы – during the holidays
- в будни – on weekdays
So в выходные is the standard way to say “on the weekend / at the weekend” in Russian.
In в выходные, the word выходные is in the accusative plural.
- Nominative plural: выходные
- Accusative plural (for inanimate nouns): выходные (same as nominative)
The preposition в can take either:
- accusative for direction / time (в выходные, в понедельник, в июне)
- prepositional for location (в саду, в школе)
Here, в выходные is a time expression (“when?”), so в + accusative is used.