Если мы выйдем пораньше, мы сможем без спешки доехать до вокзала.

This is a very common point of confusion.

In Russian, after если (if), you can use a future form when you are talking about a real future condition:

• Если мы выйдем пораньше... = If we leave earlier...

Here выйдем is the future form of выйти.

So Russian does not follow the same rule as English here. English avoids will in most if-clauses, but Russian normally uses the appropriate tense more directly.

A few comparisons:

• Если мы выйдем пораньше, мы успеем.
  If we leave earlier, we’ll make it.

• Если он придёт, я скажу ему.
  If he comes, I’ll tell him.

So even though English uses a present form, Russian often uses a future form in this kind of sentence.

Because выйти is a perfective verb, and here the speaker means leave once, as a completed action.

• выйти = to go out / leave, viewed as a single completed act
• выйдем = we will leave

This fits the meaning well: first we leave, then as a result we can get to the station without rushing.

Why not the others?

• будем выходить would come from the imperfective verb and would sound more like we will be in the process of leaving, which does not fit as naturally here.
• выходим is present tense and would usually mean we are leaving / we leave, not the normal way to express this future condition here.

So выйдем is the natural choice because the sentence is about a single future completed action.

Пораньше means a bit earlier, somewhat earlier, or simply earlier in a natural conversational way.

It is related to раньше:

• раньше = earlier / before
• пораньше = a little earlier, nice and early, somewhat earlier

The prefix по- often softens the expression or gives it a sense like a bit or rather.

So:

• выйти раньше = leave earlier
• выйти пораньше = leave a bit earlier / leave nice and early

In everyday speech, пораньше is very common and sounds natural here.

Сможем is the future tense of смочь, which means to be able to / to manage to.

• смочь = to succeed in being able to
• сможем = we will be able to

So:

• мы сможем доехать = we will be able to get there / we’ll manage to get there

This makes sense because the second part gives the result of the condition:

• Если мы выйдем пораньше = If we leave earlier
• мы сможем без спешки доехать до вокзала = we’ll be able to get to the station without rushing

You could think of it as: leaving earlier creates the possibility of a calm trip.

Because доехать means to get to a place by transport, with a focus on reaching the destination.

Compare:

• ехать = to be going / to go by vehicle
• доехать = to get as far as, to reach by vehicle

In this sentence, the important idea is not just the process of traveling, but successfully arriving at the station.

So:

• доехать до вокзала = to get to the station
• literally, something like to ride/drive as far as the station

This is why доехать works especially well.

Both can often be translated as get to the station / arrive at the station, but they are built differently and focus slightly differently.

• доехать до вокзала
  literally: to travel as far as the station
• приехать на вокзал
  literally: to arrive at the station

A useful way to think about it:

• доехать emphasizes reaching the destination
• приехать emphasizes arrival

In many situations, both are possible. But доехать до вокзала sounds very natural when talking about whether the trip can be completed in time or comfortably.

Also notice the different prepositions/cases:

• доехать до вокзала → до
  • genitive
• приехать на вокзал → на
  • accusative

Because the preposition до requires the genitive case.

• до = up to / as far as / to
• вокзал is the dictionary form
• до вокзала is the genitive form

So:

• до дома = to the house / as far as the house
• до центра = to the center
• до вокзала = to the station

This is a standard pattern in Russian:

• до + genitive

Без спешки is a fixed-type phrase meaning without haste, without rushing, or more naturally without being in a hurry.

Grammatically:

• без = without
• спешка = haste, hurry
• after без, Russian uses the genitive case
• so спешка becomes спешки

That gives:

• без спешки = without hurry / without rushing

It functions like an adverbial phrase, describing how they will get to the station.

A similar alternative is:

• не спеша = unhurriedly / without hurrying

But без спешки sounds very natural and slightly more noun-based, like in no rush.

Yes, Russian very often can leave it out.

The sentence could also be:

• Если выйдем пораньше, сможем без спешки доехать до вокзала.

This is perfectly natural.

Why include мы twice, then?

1. Clarity
   It makes the structure very clear, especially in a longer sentence.

2. Balance
   Russian often repeats the subject in both clauses for neatness.

3. Slight emphasis
   It can subtly highlight we.

So both versions are possible:

• Если мы выйдем пораньше, мы сможем...
• Если выйдем пораньше, сможем...

The version with мы is a little more explicit.

Not completely. Russian word order is flexible, though some versions sound more neutral than others.

The given sentence is very neutral and standard:

• Если мы выйдем пораньше, мы сможем без спешки доехать до вокзала.

You could also say:

• Если мы выйдем пораньше, сможем без спешки доехать до вокзала.
• Мы сможем без спешки доехать до вокзала, если выйдем пораньше.

These all mean essentially the same thing.

What changes is the focus:

• putting the если clause first sets up the condition first
• putting the main clause first can make the result sound more prominent

So the original order is just the most straightforward, textbook-like way to say it.

Because in Russian, a subordinate clause introduced by если is separated by a comma from the main clause.

So:

• Если мы выйдем пораньше, мы сможем...

This comma is required in standard written Russian.

The same happens with many other conjunctions introducing subordinate clauses, such as:

• когда = when
• потому что = because
• хотя = although

For example:

• Когда он придёт, мы начнём.
• Если будет дождь, мы останемся дома.

So the comma here is normal grammar, not optional style.

Not always exactly, but here вокзал is best understood as station, especially a major rail station.

Most often:

• вокзал = railway station / major terminal

Depending on context, Russian can also use more specific words, for example:

• станция метро = metro station
• автовокзал = bus station
• железнодорожный вокзал = railway station

So in this sentence, до вокзала most naturally means to the train station unless context says otherwise.