Пора подвести итоги.

Пора means it’s time or the time has come.

In this sentence, Пора подвести итоги = It’s time to sum things up / take stock / draw conclusions.

A useful distinction:

• пора often sounds like now is the right moment or the moment has arrived
• время is the general word for time

Compare:

• Пора уходить. = It’s time to leave.
• У меня нет времени. = I don’t have time.

You can sometimes say время подвести итоги, but пора is the more natural choice when you mean now we should do this.

Because пора is commonly followed by an infinitive.

The pattern is:

• Пора + infinitive

Examples:

• Пора спать. = It’s time to sleep.
• Пора идти. = It’s time to go.
• Пора подвести итоги. = It’s time to sum things up.

There is no separate word for to before the infinitive in Russian, so подвести simply means to sum up / to draw up / to bring to a conclusion here.

This is about aspect.

• подвести = perfective
• подводить = imperfective

Russian usually uses the perfective infinitive after пора when talking about a single action that should now be completed.

So:

• Пора подвести итоги = It’s time to sum things up now
  (focus on reaching the result)

If you said:

• Пора подводить итоги

that would sound more like It’s time to start summing things up or the period for summing things up has begun. It is possible, but подвести is more standard here because drawing up the results is seen as a complete, goal-oriented action.

Literally, подвести итоги is something like to bring the results to a conclusion.

This is a fixed Russian expression meaning:

• to sum up
• to review the results
• to take stock
• to draw conclusions from what has happened

The verb подвести has many meanings in different contexts, but in the phrase подвести итоги, you should learn it as a set expression.

Very common related expressions:

• подвести итоги года = to sum up the year
• подвести итоги встречи = to summarize the results of the meeting
• подвести итоги работы = to review the results of the work

Because Russian normally uses итоги in the plural when talking about results, outcomes, or conclusions taken together.

• итог = result, outcome, final sum
• итоги = results, overall conclusions, the final reckoning

In this expression, the plural is the normal form:

• подвести итоги

Even when English uses singular sum up, Russian still often prefers the plural итоги, because the idea is bringing together all the results/outcomes.

Итоги is in the accusative plural.

Why? Because подвести is a transitive verb here, and it takes a direct object:

• подвести что? → итоги

For masculine plural inanimate nouns, the accusative plural looks the same as the nominative plural.

So:

• nominative plural: итоги
• accusative plural: итоги

That is why the form does not visibly change.

Because Russian often leaves the subject unstated when it is general, obvious, or not important.

So:

• Пора подвести итоги.

naturally means something like:

• It’s time to sum things up
• We should sum things up now
• Time to review the results

If you want to make the subject explicit, you can:

• Нам пора подвести итоги. = It’s time for us to sum things up.
• Пора нам подвести итоги. = same idea, slightly different emphasis

But without мы or нам, the sentence is still complete and very natural.

Because the structure with пора uses the person affected in the dative case, not the nominative subject form.

So:

• мне пора = it’s time for me
• тебе пора = it’s time for you
• нам пора = it’s time for us

Examples:

• Мне пора домой. = It’s time for me to go home.
• Нам пора подвести итоги. = It’s time for us to sum things up.

So not мы пора, but нам пора.

Yes. It is a perfectly normal complete sentence in Russian.

Russian often allows short impersonal sentences like this, especially with words such as:

• пора = it’s time
• нужно = it is necessary
• можно = it is possible / allowed
• нельзя = it is forbidden / impossible

So Пора подвести итоги is structurally complete even though there is no explicit subject.

Yes, but the neutral, most natural order is:

• Пора подвести итоги.

Other word orders are possible for emphasis, for example:

• Подвести итоги пора.

But that sounds marked or literary and is much less common in ordinary speech.

You may also hear:

• Уже пора подвести итоги. = It’s already time to sum things up.
• Пора уже подвести итоги. = similar, with stronger conversational emphasis

So word order can move a little, but the basic version is the safest one to use.

It is neutral and can work in many situations.

It could be used:

• in conversation
• in a meeting
• in a speech
• in an article
• in a report or presentation

Depending on context, it may sound:

• conversational: Well, time to sum things up
• professional: It is time to review the results
• reflective: The time has come to take stock

So it is neither slangy nor stiffly formal.

Yes, very often.

Common patterns:

• подвести итоги года = to sum up the year
• подвести итоги месяца = to sum up the month
• подвести итоги встречи = to summarize the results of the meeting
• подвести итоги работы = to review the results of the work

So you can expand the sentence:

• Пора подвести итоги года.
• Пора подвести итоги нашего проекта.

This is extremely common in real Russian.

Yes, depending on nuance.

Some alternatives are:

• Пора сделать выводы. = It’s time to draw conclusions.
• Пора подытожить. = It’s time to sum up.
• Нужно подвести итоги. = We need to sum things up.
• Давайте подведём итоги. = Let’s sum things up.

But подвести итоги is one of the most standard and common ways to express this idea.