Breakdown of Нам нужно разобрать весь этот мусор.
мы
we
этот
this [f: эта, n: это]
нужно
it is necessary
мусор
trash
весь
all, the whole, everything, everyone
разобрать
to sort out (perfective)
Questions & Answers about Нам нужно разобрать весь этот мусор.
The lesson is about всякий and каждый, so why does this sentence use весь?
While всякий means 'any sort of' and каждый means 'each/every', весь means 'all' or 'the entirety of'. Since we are pointing to a specific pile of garbage (этот мусор), we are talking about the whole amount of it, not 'every individual garbage' or 'all types of garbage'. Therefore, весь is the correct choice to express 'all this'.
Does the order of весь and этот matter? Could I say этот весь мусор?
You should stick to весь этот мусор. In Russian, when you combine a universal pronoun (like весь, 'all') with a demonstrative pronoun (like этот, 'this'), the universal pronoun almost always comes first, just like in English ('all this', not 'this all').
How does the verb разобрать get the meaning of 'to sort out'?
The root verb брать means 'to take'. Adding the prefix раз- (which indicates distributing or taking things apart) gives the literal image of taking items and separating them. In everyday speech, разобрать is the standard way to say you are 'sorting out', 'dismantling', or 'clearing up' a messy pile of things.
Is the phrase весь этот мусор in the Nominative case here?
No, it is in the Accusative case because it is the direct object of the action разобрать. Because мусор is a masculine inanimate noun, its Accusative form—along with its modifiers весь and этот—looks exactly identical to the Nominative form.
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