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Here давай means let’s.
In Russian, давай + 1st person plural verb is a very common way to suggest doing something together:
- Давай разложим... = Let’s lay out / divide...
- Давай украсим... = Let’s decorate...
It is informal and used when speaking to one person. If you are speaking to several people, or speaking politely, you would usually say давайте instead:
- Давайте разложим печенье...
Because both verbs are perfective.
In Russian, a perfective verb has no true present tense. Its non-past forms usually refer to the future:
- разложим = we will lay out / let’s lay out
- украсим = we will decorate / let’s decorate
So after давай, these forms naturally mean let’s do this and complete it.