Breakdown of Крестьяне работали в поле каждый день.
день
day
работать
to work
в
in / to (direction)
каждый
every
Questions & Answers about Крестьяне работали в поле каждый день.
Why does the plural of крестьянин end in -яне instead of the usual -ы or -и?
Крестьянин (peasant) belongs to a special group of nouns denoting nationalities and social classes that end in -анин or -янин. In the plural, they drop the -ин suffix and add -е for the nominative case. So, instead of adding standard plural endings, it becomes крестьяне.
Why is каждый день in the accusative case here?
When expressing frequency or a recurring time like 'every day', 'every week', or 'every year', Russian uses the accusative case without a preposition. Since день is an inanimate masculine noun, its accusative form looks identical to the nominative.
Why do we use the imperfective verb работали here?
Because the action happened 'every day' (каждый день). Repeated or habitual actions in the past require imperfective verbs in Russian, regardless of whether the peasants completed their tasks on each of those specific days.
Why doesn't the ending of поле change in the phrase в поле?
Поле (field) is a neuter noun ending in -е. To form the prepositional case to answer 'where?' (using the preposition в), standard neuter nouns take the ending -е. This means поле happens to look exactly the same in the prepositional case as it does in the nominative!