Breakdown of Я хочу сделать всю работу один, исключительно для тебя.
я
I
ты
you (singular)
работа
work, job
хотеть
to want
сделать
to do (perfective) / to make (perfective)
для
for
весь
all, the whole, everything, everyone (весь, вся, всё, все)
один
alone
исключительно
exclusively
Questions & Answers about Я хочу сделать всю работу один, исключительно для тебя.
Why is один used here for 'alone', and what case is it in?
In Russian, 'alone' is often expressed using the pronoun один. It acts like an adjective describing the subject я. Because я is the subject of the sentence, один is in the nominative case.
How would this sentence change if the speaker were a woman?
The word один must match the gender of the speaker. If a woman is speaking, it changes to the feminine form одна. The rest of the sentence stays exactly the same.
Why use the perfective verb сделать instead of the imperfective делать?
The speaker wants to complete a specific, defined amount of work (всю работу). The perfective сделать focuses on successfully finishing the task to get a result, rather than just the process of working.
Why do we say всю работу instead of вся работа?
'All the work' is the direct object of the verb сделать, which means it needs to be in the accusative case. The feminine noun работа changes to работу, and its modifier вся changes to всю to match.
Why does ты change to тебя at the end of the sentence?
It follows the preposition для (for). In Russian, для always forces the word that comes after it into the genitive case, and the genitive form of ты is тебя.
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