Давай придём пораньше, чтобы спокойно сесть у окна.

Let’s arrive a little early so that we can sit calmly by the window.

Breakdown of Давай придём пораньше, чтобы спокойно сесть у окна.

• сесть: to sit
• у: by
• окно: the window
• спокойно: calmly

Questions & Answers about Давай придём пораньше, чтобы спокойно сесть у окна.

Why does the sentence start with Давай?

Давай is a very common way to suggest doing something together, like let’s in English.

So:

• Давай придём пораньше = Let’s arrive earlier

Literally, давай comes from the verb давать (to give), but in modern conversational Russian it often works like a suggestion marker.

A few useful points:

• Давай is singular / informal, used with one person you address as ты
• Давайте is plural or polite, used with вы

So if you were speaking politely, you would say:

• Давайте придём пораньше...

Why is it придём and not приходим?

Because the sentence is making a suggestion about a future action.

• придём = we will come / let’s come
• приходим = we come / are coming in a present-habitual sense

After Давай / Давайте, Russian often uses the 1st person plural future form to mean let’s do X:

• Давай пойдём = Let’s go
• Давай посмотрим = Let’s look / let’s watch
• Давай придём пораньше = Let’s arrive earlier

So even though it looks like a future tense form, in this structure it functions as a suggestion.