Я вырос в этом городе.

Because вырос is the past tense of вырасти, which is a perfective verb. In this sentence, it means grew up as a completed life fact: the speaker spent their childhood in that city and reached adulthood there.

By contrast, рос is from расти, the imperfective verb, and focuses more on the process of growing rather than the completed result.

So:

• Я вырос в этом городе. = I grew up in this city.
• Я рос в этом городе. = I was growing up in this city / I spent my childhood growing up in this city.

Both can be possible in some contexts, but вырос is the more natural choice for a simple statement about where someone grew up.

The dictionary form is вырасти.

Here is the pattern:

• вырасти = to grow up / to grow
• я вырос = I grew up / I grew

This past tense form is irregular enough that it is worth memorizing:

• masculine: вырос
• feminine: выросла
• neuter: выросло
• plural: выросли

So if a woman is speaking, she would say:

• Я выросла в этом городе.

In Russian, the past tense is usually formed with -л, and then it agrees with gender and number.

For вырасти, the past tense stem gives:

• вырос = masculine singular
• выросла = feminine singular
• выросло = neuter singular
• выросли = plural

In this sentence, вырос shows that the speaker is male, or at least that the grammatical form is masculine.

This is very different from English, where grew up does not change for gender.

Because в can mean either:

• in / inside / at a place → takes the prepositional case
• into a place → takes the accusative case

Here, the meaning is location, not movement:

• в этом городе = in this city

So Russian uses the prepositional case:

• этот → этом
• город → городе

Compare:

• Я вырос в этом городе. = I grew up in this city
• Я переехал в этот город. = I moved to this city

Because этот has to agree with город in gender, number, and case.

Город is:

• masculine
• singular
• here in the prepositional case after в

So этот changes to the masculine singular prepositional form:

• nominative: этот город = this city
• prepositional: в этом городе = in this city

This is just adjective/demonstrative agreement, since этот behaves like an adjective.

Because after в meaning location, Russian usually uses the prepositional case.

The noun город changes like this:

• nominative: город
• prepositional: в городе

With the demonstrative:

• в этом городе

So -е is the normal prepositional singular ending for many masculine nouns.

Yes, Я can be omitted in Russian if the meaning is clear from context, because the verb form often makes the subject understandable.

So both are possible:

• Я вырос в этом городе.
• Вырос в этом городе.

The version with Я is more explicit and neutral when the sentence stands alone. Omitting Я can sound more conversational, especially when the subject is already obvious.

It can mean both, depending on context.

Possible meanings include:

• grew up
• grew
• became larger
• sometimes even rose in a figurative sense

But with в этом городе, the natural meaning is clearly grew up.

Compare:

• Я вырос в этом городе. = I grew up in this city.
• Цветок вырос. = The flower grew.
• Сын вырос. = The son grew up / became an adult.

So context tells you which English translation fits best.

Yes, there is a small difference.

• Я вырос в этом городе. = I grew up in this city
• Я вырос здесь. = I grew up here

Здесь is less specific and depends on the situation. If you are standing in the city while speaking, здесь can mean the same thing in practice. But в этом городе explicitly names the place as this city.

So в этом городе is clearer when the location itself matters.

Yes. Russian word order is flexible, and changing it usually changes emphasis, not the core meaning.

For example:

• Я вырос в этом городе. = neutral
• В этом городе я вырос. = emphasis on in this city
• Я в этом городе вырос. = slightly more conversational or contrastive

All of these can mean basically the same thing, but the first one is the most straightforward default order for learners.

The stress is:

• Я вЫрос в Этом гОроде.

More exactly:

• вырос → stress on the first syllable: вЫрос
• этом → stress on the first syllable: Этом
• городе → stress on the first syllable: гОроде

A rough pronunciation guide:

• Я = ya
• вырос = VY-rəs
• в этом = v EH-təm
• городе = GO-rə-dye

The final -е in городе is not silent.

In Russian, cities are normally used with в when you mean in:

• в Москве
• в Петербурге
• в городе
• в этом городе

Using на with a city would usually be wrong in standard Russian.

Russian does use на with some places, such as:

• islands
• some regions
• events or surfaces

But for a normal city, в is the standard choice.

Usually, yes: it strongly suggests that this city is the place where the speaker was raised and spent their formative years.

However, like the English sentence I grew up in this city, it does not have to mean every single year of childhood was spent there. It gives the main life fact, not a strict legal timeline.

So the sentence naturally communicates:

• this is the city the speaker considers their hometown or the place they were raised

No. Родился means was born, not grew up.

Compare:

• Я родился в этом городе. = I was born in this city.
• Я вырос в этом городе. = I grew up in this city.

A person can be born in one city and grow up in another, so these are different ideas.

Grammatically, вырастал exists, but it would not be the normal choice here.

• вырастал is an imperfective past form
• it tends to suggest repeated or process-focused situations, or special narrative contexts

For a simple statement of biography, Russian normally uses:

• Я вырос в этом городе.

So for learners, the safest and most natural version is definitely вырос, not вырастал.