Мы выбрали самовывоз, потому что пункт выдачи находится рядом с метро.

Выбрали is the past tense plural form of the verb выбрать (to choose).

• мы = we
• выбрали = chose / have chosen

In Russian past tense, the verb agrees with the subject in gender/number, not person:

• я выбрал / выбрала = I chose
• ты выбрал / выбрала = you chose
• мы выбрали = we chose
• они выбрали = they chose

So because the subject is мы (we), the verb is plural: выбрали.

This is a question of aspect.

• выбрать → perfective
• выбирать → imperfective

Выбрали suggests a completed choice: we made the decision and it is done.

In this sentence, that makes sense because the speaker is talking about the result of the decision:

• Мы выбрали самовывоз... = We chose self-pickup...

If you said выбирали, it would usually suggest the process, repetition, or an unfinished action:

• Мы долго выбирали... = We were choosing for a long time...

So here выбрали is the natural choice because the action is complete.

Самовывоз is a very common Russian noun meaning self-pickup, customer pickup, or collection by the customer.

Literally, it is built from:

• само- = self-
• вывоз = removal / taking out / pickup

In everyday usage, it means that instead of getting something delivered, you go and collect it yourself from a shop, warehouse, or pickup point.

Examples:

• Доставка или самовывоз? = Delivery or pickup?
• Мы выбрали самовывоз. = We chose pickup.

Пункт выдачи means pickup point, collection point, or more literally point of issuing/handing out.

Breakdown:

• пункт = point, station, location
• выдача = issuing, handing out, distribution

In the phrase пункт выдачи, the second noun is in the genitive case:

• выдача → выдачи

This is a very common Russian pattern: noun + genitive noun, often similar to English of.

So literally:

• пункт выдачи = point of distribution / point of handover

This is just the standard set phrase used for parcel pickup locations.

Yes, here находится is being used in the sense of is located.

• находиться literally means to be situated / to be located
• пункт выдачи находится рядом с метро = the pickup point is located near the metro

Russian often prefers a verb like находиться when talking about location in a slightly more formal or neutral way.

Compare:

• Пункт выдачи рядом с метро. = The pickup point is near the metro.
• Пункт выдачи находится рядом с метро. = The pickup point is located near the metro.

Both are possible, but находится sounds a bit fuller and more explicit.

Because потому что introduces a subordinate clause meaning because.

Russian normally places a comma before subordinating conjunctions like:

• потому что = because
• когда = when
• если = if
• что = that

So:

• Мы выбрали самовывоз, потому что пункт выдачи находится рядом с метро.

The comma separates:

1. the main clause: Мы выбрали самовывоз
2. the reason clause: потому что пункт выдачи находится рядом с метро

Рядом с means next to / near / beside, and it requires the instrumental case.

Pattern:

• рядом с + instrumental

Examples:

• рядом с домом = near the house
• рядом с магазином = near the shop
• рядом с метро = near the metro

So the grammar is:

• рядом с
  • noun in instrumental

However, метро is a special noun.

Because метро is an indeclinable noun in modern Russian.

That means it keeps the same form in all cases:

• nominative: метро
• genitive: метро
• dative: метро
• instrumental: метро
• etc.

So even though рядом с requires the instrumental, the word itself stays метро.

This happens with some borrowed nouns, especially ones ending in -о, such as:

• пальто = coat
• кино = cinema / movie
• метро = metro

So с метро is grammatically instrumental, even though the form looks unchanged.

Yes. Russian word order is fairly flexible, although the neutral order here is very natural:

• Мы выбрали самовывоз, потому что пункт выдачи находится рядом с метро.

You could also say:

• Мы выбрали самовывоз, потому что рядом с метро находится пункт выдачи.

This version is still grammatical, but it shifts the focus a little more toward the location.

In general:

• the original version sounds neutral and natural
• moving рядом с метро earlier gives it more emphasis

Russian often changes word order for focus, style, or information structure, not because the sentence becomes ungrammatical otherwise.

Yes, very often.

Russian frequently drops subject pronouns when they are clear from context. So:

• Мы выбрали самовывоз...
• Выбрали самовывоз...

Both can work.

However, keeping мы can be useful if:

• you want to emphasize we
• you are contrasting with someone else
• the context is not yet clear

So the full sentence with мы is perfectly natural, but in conversation Russian often leaves pronouns out when they are not needed.

They are similar, but not always identical in feeling.

• рядом с метро = right near / next to the metro
• около метро = near the metro / in the area of the metro

Рядом с often suggests closer physical proximity than около.

So:

• пункт выдачи находится рядом с метро suggests the pickup point is very close to the metro station
• пункт выдачи находится около метро is also possible, but can sound a little less exact

In many everyday situations, though, they are close enough to be translated simply as near the metro.

A natural pronunciation would be:

Мы вы́брали самовы́воз, потому́ что пункт выда́чи нахо́дится ря́дом с метро́.

Main stress points:

• вы́брали
• самовы́воз
• потому́
• выда́чи
• нахо́дится
• ря́дом
• метро́

A few pronunciation notes:

• что in потому что is usually pronounced more like што
• находится is often pronounced in fast speech roughly like нахо́дицца
• метро́ has the stress on the last syllable

If spoken naturally, the sentence flows smoothly, with the main information often falling on самовывоз and рядом с метро.