Когда проходит злость, нам легче спокойно поговорить.

Because Когда проходит злость is a subordinate clause introduced by когда.

Russian normally separates this kind of clause with a comma:

• Когда проходит злость, нам легче спокойно поговорить.

Literally, the structure is:

• When the anger passes, it is easier for us to talk calmly.

Even if the English comma might sometimes feel optional in short sentences, in Russian this comma is standard.

Both word orders are possible.

• Когда проходит злость...
• Когда злость проходит...

Russian word order is more flexible than English. The version in your sentence sounds natural and smooth, especially after когда, where the verb often comes early.

There is no big change in core meaning:

• Когда проходит злость = When the anger passes / when anger goes away
• Когда злость проходит = same basic meaning

The first version may feel a little more fluid or neutral in context.

Because злость is the subject of проходит.

In this clause:

• проходит = passes / goes away
• злость = anger

So the literal structure is:

• anger passes

That makes злость the subject, so it stays in the nominative case.

Yes. Проходить literally often means to pass, to go through, or to go by, but in this context it means:

• to pass
• to go away
• to wear off

So Когда проходит злость means something like:

• When the anger passes
• When the anger goes away
• When the anger subsides

This is a very natural Russian way to talk about emotions fading.

Because the sentence expresses a general idea, not one single completed future event.

• проходит is imperfective present
• It suggests something like whenever anger passes or when anger dies down

So the sentence sounds like a general truth:

• When anger passes, it is easier for us to talk calmly.

If you were talking about one specific future situation, Russian would more likely use perfective future:

• Когда пройдёт злость, нам будет легче спокойно поговорить.
• When the anger has passed / once the anger passes, it will be easier for us to talk calmly.

So your sentence has more of a general, timeless feeling.

Because Russian often uses the dative case for the person experiencing a state.

Here:

• нам = to us / for us
• легче = easier

So нам легче literally means:

• to us, [it is] easier
• more naturally: it is easier for us

This is a very common Russian pattern:

• Мне трудно. = It’s hard for me.
• Ему холодно. = He is cold. / It’s cold to him.
• Нам легче поговорить. = It’s easier for us to talk.

Using мы would not work here.

Легче here is the comparative form of легко and means easier.

Russian often uses this comparative in impersonal sentences:

• Мне легче
• Тебе легче
• Нам легче

It means it is easier for me/you/us.

So:

• нам легче спокойно поговорить = it is easier for us to talk calmly

This does not describe us as light or anything like that. It describes the situation as easier.

Yes, in a sense.

Russian often leaves out words that English would need.

In the present tense, Russian usually omits the verb to be:

• Нам легче спокойно поговорить.
• literally: To us easier calmly to talk.
• natural English: It is easier for us to talk calmly.

An English-style it is is not said explicitly.

If you wanted a future meaning, you could say:

• Нам будет легче спокойно поговорить.
• It will be easier for us to talk calmly.

So in your sentence, the present-tense is is simply understood.

Because поговорить is perfective and usually means to have a talk, to talk things through, or to talk for a while as a complete event.

Compare:

• говорить = to speak / to be talking (process, ongoing activity)
• поговорить = to have a conversation / to talk things over (one complete act)

In this sentence, the idea is not just the process of speaking, but successfully sitting down and having a calm conversation. That makes поговорить very natural.

So:

• нам легче спокойно поговорить = it is easier for us to talk calmly / have a calm talk

If you used говорить, it would sound more about the activity in general, not so much one complete conversation.

Спокойно is an adverb meaning:

• calmly
• in a calm way

It modifies поговорить:

• спокойно поговорить = to talk calmly

So the sentence is not just saying that talking becomes easier. It says that calm, composed conversation becomes easier once the anger has passed.

Yes. The exact English translation depends on context.

Because the sentence is fairly general, когда can feel like:

• when
• whenever
• sometimes once

Possible translations:

• When anger passes, it’s easier for us to talk calmly.
• Whenever the anger passes, it’s easier for us to talk calmly.
• Once the anger is gone, it’s easier for us to talk calmly.

In this specific sentence, when or once usually sounds best in English.

Yes, it is natural.

Russian often uses verbs like проходить with feelings or physical states:

• Злость проходит. = The anger passes.
• Боль проходит. = The pain goes away.
• Страх проходит. = The fear fades.

So Когда проходит злость is an idiomatic, normal way to say that anger subsides.

Yes, Russian allows several natural variations, for example:

• Когда проходит злость, нам легче спокойно поговорить.
• Нам легче спокойно поговорить, когда проходит злость.
• Когда злость проходит, нам легче спокойно поговорить.

These all mean roughly the same thing. The original version is very natural and puts the condition first: first the anger passes, then calm conversation becomes easier.

It has two parts:

1. Когда проходит злость
   = subordinate clause of time
   = when anger passes

2. нам легче спокойно поговорить
   = main clause
   = it is easier for us to talk calmly

So the whole structure is:

• When X happens, it is easier for us to do Y.

More literally:

• When the anger passes, to us [it is] easier to talk calmly.

That is a very common Russian pattern.