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وَكُلُّهَا مَنْصُوبٌ بِتَقْدِيرِ «فِي»، تَقُولُ: «صُمْتُ دَهْرًا، وَسَافَرْتُ شَهْرًا» أَيْ: فِي دَهْرٍ وَفِي شَهْرٍ.
Translation: Both time classes can be accusative adverbials, understood with an implicit “in/during”; e.g., I fasted for a long period and travelled for a month.

An understood fī explains the temporal relation; it is not an actually spoken preposition. If fī is pronounced, its noun is genitive instead.

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Accusative Time Adverbials

Al-Mafʿūl Fīhi: Adverbials of Time and Place

وَكُلُّهَا مَنْصُوبٌ بِتَقْدِيرِ «فِي»، تَقُولُ: «صُمْتُ دَهْرًا، وَسَافَرْتُ شَهْرًا» أَيْ: فِي دَهْرٍ وَفِي شَهْرٍ.
Translation: Both time classes can be accusative adverbials, understood with an implicit “in/during”; e.g., I fasted for a long period and travelled for a month.

An understood fī explains the temporal relation; it is not an actually spoken preposition. If fī is pronounced, its noun is genitive instead.