Сканер стоит рядом с принтером.

Yes, стоит literally means stands, from the verb стоять.

In Russian, this verb is often used not only for something physically standing upright, but also for something that is positioned or located somewhere, especially objects like furniture, appliances, and equipment.

So in this sentence, Сканер стоит рядом с принтером can be understood as:

• The scanner is standing next to the printer
• more naturally in English: The scanner is next to the printer

Russian often uses verbs like стоять, лежать, and висеть where English would simply use is:

• Книга лежит на столе = The book is lying / is on the table
• Картина висит на стене = The picture is hanging / is on the wall
• Сканер стоит рядом с принтером = The scanner is next to the printer

In the present tense, Russian usually does not use the verb to be (быть) the way English does.

So English The scanner is next to the printer becomes simply:

• Сканер рядом с принтером
  or, more specifically here,
• Сканер стоит рядом с принтером

Russian normally leaves out is / am / are in the present tense.

Examples:

• Он дома = He is at home
• Это интересно = This is interesting
• Принтер на столе = The printer is on the table

So the sentence is completely normal without a separate word for is.

Because the preposition с after рядом requires the instrumental case.

The fixed expression is:

• рядом с + instrumental

So:

• принтер = nominative
• с принтером = instrumental

That is why the ending changes to -ом.

Other examples:

• рядом с домом = next to the house
• рядом с компьютером = next to the computer
• рядом с окном = next to the window

So с принтером is not optional here; it is the correct case form required by the expression.

Принтером is in the instrumental case.

You can tell this in two ways:

1. The construction рядом с requires instrumental.
2. The ending -ом is a very common instrumental singular ending for masculine nouns.

Here is the pattern:

• принтер = nominative singular
• принтером = instrumental singular

This is very common with masculine nouns:

• стол → столом
• телефон → телефоном
• компьютер → компьютером
• принтер → принтером

Because Сканер is the subject of the sentence, and subjects are usually in the nominative case.

Here, the sentence is about the scanner and where it is located:

• Сканер = the scanner
• стоит = stands / is located
• рядом с принтером = next to the printer

So Сканер stays in its dictionary form, the nominative singular.

Yes, essentially it is.

The idea next to / beside is usually expressed as:

• рядом с + instrumental

So it is best to learn it as a chunk, not as two completely separate pieces.

Examples:

• рядом с машиной = next to the car
• рядом с дверью = next to the door
• рядом с учителем = next to the teacher

If you remember рядом с + instrumental, it becomes much easier to build your own sentences correctly.

Yes, absolutely.

• Сканер рядом с принтером = The scanner is next to the printer
• Сканер стоит рядом с принтером = The scanner is standing / located next to the printer

The version without стоит is simpler and very natural.

Adding стоит gives a little more sense of physical placement. With objects like a scanner or printer, both versions are normal, but стоит emphasizes that the scanner is positioned there as an object standing on a surface or in a place.

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

The neutral order here is:

• Сканер стоит рядом с принтером.

But other orders are possible, depending on emphasis:

• Рядом с принтером стоит сканер.
  = Next to the printer is a scanner / emphasis on location

This often happens in Russian: the most important or new information may come later in the sentence.

Still, for learners, Сканер стоит рядом с принтером is the safest and most straightforward word order.

Not always in the strict physical sense.

Russian often classifies object position more specifically than English does. With many objects placed on a surface or occupying a spot, стоять is the natural verb, even if English would not literally think of them as standing.

For example:

• Принтер стоит на столе = The printer is on the desk
• Лампа стоит у окна = The lamp is by the window

So with devices, furniture, containers, and similar objects, стоять is very common.

However, Russian also uses:

• лежать for things lying flat
• висеть for things hanging

This is one of those areas where Russian is more physically descriptive than English.

Both can often mean near or next to, but they are not always exactly the same.

• рядом с usually means right next to, beside
• около often means near, by, sometimes less specifically

So:

• Сканер стоит рядом с принтером suggests the scanner is right beside the printer.
• Сканер стоит около принтера means the scanner is near the printer, which may sound slightly less exact.

There is also a grammar difference:

• рядом с + instrumental
• около + genitive

Compare:

• рядом с принтером
• около принтера

Yes, you could say:

• Сканер находится рядом с принтером.

This means The scanner is located next to the printer.

The difference is in style:

• стоит is more everyday and concrete
• находится is more formal or neutral, and less about physical orientation

For ordinary speech about where objects are, стоит is usually more natural.

The stress is on the first syllable:

• при́нтером

A rough pronunciation guide:

• Сканер = SKA-ner
• стоит = sta-EET
• рядом = RYA-dam
• с принтером = s PRIHN-te-ram

A more accurate point: in unstressed syllables, Russian о is often pronounced more like a reduced a sound. So принтером is written with о, but in normal speech the last syllable sounds closer to -ram than a clear -rom.

Russian has no articles.

So Russian does not have separate words for a, an, or the. The listener understands from context whether the meaning is definite or indefinite.

That means:

• Сканер can mean a scanner or the scanner
• принтером can mean a printer or the printer, depending on context

In this sentence, English would usually translate it as the scanner and the printer, but Russian does not mark that with articles.