Кровать стоит рядом с окном.

to stand

Breakdown of Кровать стоит рядом с окном.

• окно: the window
• рядом с: next to
• кровать: the bed

Questions & Answers about Кровать стоит рядом с окном.

Why is стоит used here instead of лежит, сидит, or висит?

In Russian, static location verbs agree with an object’s typical orientation or function. Use:

• стоять (to stand) for things “set upright” or standard furniture
• лежать (to lie) for objects literally lying on a surface (e.g. a book on a table)
• висеть (to hang) for items suspended (e.g. a picture on the wall)
• сидеть (to sit) for living beings or movable chairs in the sitting position

A кровать is treated as upright furniture in a room, so we say кровать стоит, not лежит.

What case is окном in and why?

Окном is in the instrumental singular. The prepositional phrase рядом с always takes the instrumental. You ask “с чем?” (with what?), so окно → окно́м.

Why do we need с after рядом?

Рядом by itself is just an adverb (“near”). To link it to a noun, Russian uses the construction рядом с + Instrumental. Without с, you can’t indicate which object it’s near.

Could we replace рядом с окном with у окна? Is there a difference?