Я не пошёл в парк из-за сильного ветра.

Because пойти / пошёл usually means to set off, to go (on a particular occasion), while идти / шёл focuses more on the process of going, being on the way.

In this sentence, the idea is:

• I didn’t go to the park = I didn’t set off / I never went

So не пошёл is the natural choice.

Compare:

• Я не пошёл в парк. = I didn’t go to the park / I never set off
• Я не шёл в парк. = I wasn’t walking to the park / I was not in the process of going to the park

So не пошёл is about the whole event not happening.

That is the normal marker of the past tense in Russian.

For many verbs, the past tense is formed from the infinitive stem plus -л:

• делать → делал
• читать → читал
• пойти → пошёл

Then the ending also shows gender/number:

• пошёл = masculine singular
• пошла = feminine singular
• пошло = neuter singular
• пошли = plural

So this sentence suggests the speaker is male.
A female speaker would say:

• Я не пошла в парк из-за сильного ветра.

Russian does not use a separate helper verb like English do / did for negation or questions in ordinary sentences.

English:

• I did not go

Russian:

• Я не пошёл

Here:

• я = I
• не = not
• пошёл = went / set off

So Russian expresses the past tense directly in the main verb, without a separate did.

In Russian, не normally goes directly before the word it negates.

So:

• Я не пошёл в парк = I didn’t go to the park

That is the standard and most neutral placement.

If you move things around, you may change emphasis, but the basic pattern is:

• не + verb

Because в can take different cases depending on meaning.

Here, в парк uses the accusative case because it shows direction / motion toward a place:

• идти в парк = to go to the park
• пойти в парк = to head to the park

But в парке uses the prepositional case and means in the park as a location:

• Я был в парке. = I was in the park.

So:

• в парк = to the park
• в парке = in the park

It only looks unchanged because for many masculine inanimate nouns, the accusative singular is identical to the nominative singular.

So:

• nominative: парк
• accusative: парк

That is very common with masculine inanimate nouns.

Compare with a feminine noun, where you can see the change more clearly:

• в школу = to school
• в школу, not в школа

So в парк is accusative, even though the form looks the same as the dictionary form.

Here из-за means because of.

So:

• из-за сильного ветра = because of the strong wind

Be careful: из-за can also literally mean from behind in other contexts:

• из-за дома = from behind the house

But in this sentence, the meaning is clearly because of.

Because из-за requires the genitive case.

The dictionary form is:

• ветер = wind

But after из-за, it changes to the genitive singular:

• из-за ветра = because of the wind

So:

• nominative: ветер
• genitive: ветра

That is why you see ветра here.

Because the adjective must agree with the noun in case, gender, and number.

Since ветра is genitive singular masculine, the adjective must also be genitive singular masculine:

• сильный ветер = strong wind
  nominative
• из-за сильного ветра = because of the strong wind
  genitive

So both words change together:

• сильный → сильного
• ветер → ветра

Yes, it is very natural.

A few common ways to express cause in Russian are:

• из-за + genitive = because of, due to
• из‑за дождя = because of the rain
• из‑за пробок = because of traffic jams

This construction is especially common when talking about a reason that caused a problem or prevented something.

So Я не пошёл в парк из-за сильного ветра sounds very natural.

Often, yes. Из-за frequently introduces a cause with a negative or inconvenient result.

Examples:

• из-за болезни = because of illness
• из-за дождя = because of the rain
• из-за сильного ветра = because of the strong wind

That fits well here, since the wind prevented the trip.

For more neutral reasons, Russian also often uses:

• из‑за in everyday speech anyway
• or other structures such as потому что = because

But in this sentence, из-за is a very good choice.

Yes. You could also say:

• Я не пошёл в парк, потому что был сильный ветер.

That means:

• I didn’t go to the park because there was a strong wind.

The difference is mainly structural:

• из-за сильного ветра = because of the strong wind
  noun phrase
• потому что был сильный ветер = because there was a strong wind
  full clause

Both are natural.

The main stresses are:

• Я не пошёл в парк из-за си́льного ве́тра.

Important ones:

• пошёл → stress on -шёл
• си́льного → stress on the first syllable
• ве́тра → stress on the first syllable

Stress matters in Russian, so it is worth learning words together with their stress.

Yes. Russian word order is more flexible than English, although the neutral order here is very natural:

• Я не пошёл в парк из-за сильного ветра.

You could also say:

• Из-за сильного ветра я не пошёл в парк.

This puts more emphasis on the reason:

• Because of the strong wind, I didn’t go to the park.

So the original sentence is neutral, and alternative word orders mostly change emphasis rather than core meaning.

Only the past-tense verb would change:

• Я не пошла в парк из-за сильного ветра.

That is because Russian past tense agrees with the speaker’s gender in the singular:

• male speaker: пошёл
• female speaker: пошла

The rest of the sentence stays the same.

Russian has no articles like a, an, or the.

So:

• в парк can mean to a park or to the park
• ветер / ветра can mean wind or the wind

The exact meaning depends on context.

In this sentence, English naturally uses the park and the strong wind, but Russian does not need separate words for that.