Сейф стоит рядом с дверью.

Yes. Стоит is the 3rd person singular of стоять, which literally means to stand.

In Russian, when describing where something is, people often use:

• стоять = to stand
• лежать = to lie
• висеть = to hang

So Сейф стоит рядом с дверью is very natural, because a safe is thought of as an upright object.

English often just says is, but Russian prefers the more specific verb in many everyday sentences.

A more neutral alternative would be:

• Сейф находится рядом с дверью = The safe is located next to the door

But стоит sounds more natural in ordinary speech here.

Дверью is in the instrumental case.

That is because the expression рядом с (next to / beside) requires the noun after it to be in the instrumental:

• рядом с кем?
• рядом с чем?

So:

• дверь = door
• рядом с дверью = next to the door

This is something you usually just learn as a fixed pattern:

• рядом с домом = next to the house
• рядом с окном = next to the window
• рядом с дверью = next to the door

Because дверь is a feminine noun ending in -ь, and its instrumental singular form is -ью.

So:

• nominative: дверь
• instrumental: дверью

Other similar examples:

• тетрадь → тетрадью
• ночь → ночью

This pattern is very common for feminine soft-sign nouns.

Рядом by itself means something like nearby or close.

But when Russian says next to something, it normally uses the combination:

• рядом с + instrumental

So:

• рядом = nearby
• рядом с дверью = next to the door

Think of рядом с as one expression you learn together.

Russian uses со instead of с only in some pronunciation situations, usually to avoid awkward consonant clusters.

Here, с дверью is easy enough to say, so standard Russian uses с, not со.

Compare:

• с братом
• с мамой
• с дверью

But sometimes you get:

• со мной
• со зла
• со шкафа

So in this sentence, рядом с дверью is simply the normal form.

Because Russian has no articles.

So сейф can mean:

• a safe
• the safe

and дверью can mean:

• a door
• the door

The exact meaning depends on context. English needs articles, but Russian usually does not.

Yes. Russian word order is more flexible than English word order.

The neutral order here is:

• Сейф стоит рядом с дверью.

But you could also say:

• Рядом с дверью стоит сейф.

That version emphasizes the location a bit more, or introduces safe as new information.

Both are grammatically correct. The difference is mostly about emphasis and information flow, not basic meaning.

The stresses are:

• сейф — one syllable
• стои́т
• ря́дом
• две́рью

So:

• Сейф стои́т ря́дом с две́рью.

A rough pronunciation guide:

• сейф ≈ safe
• стоит ≈ sta-YEET (but with only two syllables: sta-it)
• рядом ≈ RYA-dam
• дверью ≈ DVYER-yu

The combination с дверью may feel tricky at first because of the consonants.

Yes, сейф is masculine.

A good clue is that it ends in a consonant in the dictionary form:

• сейф

Most Russian nouns ending in a consonant are masculine.

You can also see it from the verb form:

• Сейф стоит

In the present tense, стоит is the same for all genders, so here the noun ending is the main clue.

Sometimes, yes, but the meaning may shift slightly.

For example:

• около двери = near the door
• возле двери = by / near the door
• у двери = by the door
• рядом с дверью = right next to / beside the door

So рядом с usually suggests fairly close physical proximity, often right next to something.

By itself, it can mean either one.

• It could describe the safe’s usual place.
• It could also describe what someone sees right now.

Russian present tense often works like English here. Context tells you whether it is a general fact or a current situation.

Normally, no. That would sound unnatural in standard Russian.

In present-tense location sentences, Russian usually does not use есть the way English uses is.

So you say:

• Сейф стоит рядом с дверью.
• Сейф находится рядом с дверью.

But not normally:

• Сейф есть рядом с дверью.

The word есть in modern Russian is usually used for:

• possession: У меня есть книга = I have a book
• emphasis or special contexts, not ordinary location sentences

Находится is possible:

• Сейф находится рядом с дверью.

That is more neutral and formal, like is located.

Лежит would usually be wrong unless the safe is actually lying on its side or horizontally.

So:

• стоит = natural for an upright safe
• находится = neutral, more formal
• лежит = only if it is physically lying down