Пассажирка спросила, на какой станции лучше выйти.

Пассажирка is the feminine form of пассажир and means female passenger.

So:

• пассажир = passenger / male passenger
• пассажирка = female passenger

Russian past-tense verbs also show gender, so once the speaker uses пассажирка, the verb naturally becomes спросила.

Спросила is:

• past tense
• feminine singular
• perfective aspect

It agrees with пассажирка, which is feminine.

Why спросила?

Because спросить means to ask as a completed action: she asked once.

Compare:

• спросила = asked
• спрашивала = was asking / used to ask / asked repeatedly

In this sentence, the act of asking is treated as one completed event, so спросила is the natural choice.

Because everything after the comma is an indirect question:

на какой станции лучше выйти

This is similar to English:

• She asked, which station it was better to get off at.

In Russian, indirect-question clauses are normally separated by a comma from the main clause.

This is prepositional case after на when talking about location or position.

Form:

• какая станция = which station
• на какой станции = at/on which station

Here:

• какой = prepositional singular feminine
• станции = prepositional singular of станция

Why prepositional?

Because the idea is at which station one should get off.

Even though выйти involves movement, the phrase refers to the place where the action happens, not the direction toward it.

With станция in the sense of a metro/train station, Russian normally uses на:

• на станции метро
• на следующей станции
• на какой станции

This is just the standard Russian preposition for this context. It does not translate word-for-word from English.

English says at the station or sometimes on the station platform, but Russian idiomatically uses на станции.

Лучше means better.

In this sentence, it expresses advice or the best option:

• лучше выйти = it is better to get off

So the whole clause means something like:

• at which station it would be better to get off
• which station would be the best one to get off at

Russian often uses лучше + infinitive to mean it is better to do something.

Examples:

• Лучше подождать. = It’s better to wait.
• Лучше спросить. = It’s better to ask.

Выйти is perfective, while выходить is imperfective.

Here, выйти is used because:

The speaker is talking about one specific completed action: getting off at one station.

• выйти = to get out / to get off (once, completed)
• выходить = to be getting out / to get out regularly / in general

In sentences about choosing the right moment or place for one completed action, Russian usually prefers the perfective:

• Где лучше выйти? = Where is it better to get off?
• Когда лучше позвонить? = When is it better to call?

Yes, sometimes, especially in transport contexts.

Compare:

• выйти = to get out / get off
• сойти = to get off, step off

For buses, trains, trams, and the metro, выйти is very common and neutral.
Сойти can also work, but it may sound a little more specifically like step off or get off from transport.

So:

• На какой станции лучше выйти? = very natural
• На какой станции лучше сойти? = also understandable and often natural

But выйти is probably the safest general choice for learners.

Yes, Russian often leaves that unstated if it is not important or is clear from context.

Спросить usually takes a person asked:

• спросить у кого-то = ask someone
• спросить кого-то = ask someone

But in this sentence, the focus is on what she asked, not whom she asked, so Russian simply leaves it out.

Fuller versions could be:

• Пассажирка спросила у водителя, на какой станции лучше выйти.
• Пассажирка спросила меня, на какой станции лучше выйти.

Without that extra detail, the original sentence still sounds perfectly natural.

Russian often expresses that idea without a direct equivalent of English should.

Here, the meaning comes from:

• лучше = better
• выйти = get off

So на какой станции лучше выйти literally means:

• at which station it is better to get off

That naturally covers the idea of should in English.

Russian frequently uses words like лучше, надо, нужно, or стоит where English might use should.

For example:

• Мне лучше уйти. = I should leave / It’s better for me to leave.
• Тебе нужно спросить. = You should ask.

Yes. Russian word order is flexible, though some versions sound more neutral than others.

The original:

• Пассажирка спросила, на какой станции лучше выйти.

is natural and neutral.

Possible variations:

• Пассажирка спросила, где лучше выйти.
  = The female passenger asked where it was better to get off.
  Slightly less specific: where, not at which station.

• На какой станции лучше выйти, спросила пассажирка.
  This is possible, but more literary or marked.

• Пассажирка спросила, лучше выйти на какой станции?
  This sounds less natural for standard indirect speech.

So the original word order is the best standard model for learners.

It is an indirect question.

A direct question would be:

• На какой станции лучше выйти?
  = Which station is it better to get off at?

When that question is reported after спросила, it becomes an indirect question:

• Пассажирка спросила, на какой станции лучше выйти.

Unlike English, Russian does not need a word like whether here, because the clause already begins with the question word какой.

In this sentence, it means at which station.

Even though на often means on, prepositions do not always match English directly. With stations in this context, на станции is simply the normal Russian expression.

So you should understand:

• на какой станции = at which station

not a literal English on which station.