Мы смогли согласовать время.

Смогли is the past tense plural form of смочь, which means to manage to, to succeed in being able to.

• смочь = perfective verb
• смогли = we managed / were able

Because the subject is мы (we), the verb must also be plural.

Compare:

• Я смог = I managed to
• Она смогла = she managed to
• Мы смогли = we managed to

So мы смогли... means something like we were able to... or we managed to...

This is very common in Russian.

The first verb, смогли, expresses ability/success: managed to.
The second verb, согласовать, tells you what was managed.

So the pattern is:

• смочь + infinitive = to manage to do something

Examples:

• Я смог прийти. = I managed to come.
• Мы смогли договориться. = We managed to reach an agreement.
• Мы смогли согласовать время. = We managed to agree on a time.

In English, we also often use two verbs:

• were able to agree
• managed to arrange

So this structure is normal and natural.

Because after смочь (to be able / manage to), Russian normally uses an infinitive.

So:

• смогли что сделать? → согласовать

This is just like English:

• We managed to agree
• We were able to arrange

The infinitive is the dictionary-style verb form:

• согласовать = to coordinate / agree / arrange

In this sentence, согласовать means something like:

• to agree on
• to coordinate
• to arrange
• to settle

So согласовать время is best understood as:

• to agree on a time
• to coordinate a time
• to settle on a time

It does not usually mean simply to agree in the general sense of sharing the same opinion.
For that, Russian often uses соглашаться or договориться, depending on context.

Here the idea is practical: people coordinated their schedules and found a suitable time.

Because согласовать here takes a direct object.

So:

• согласовать что? → время

That means время is in the accusative case.

However, время is a neuter noun, and in the singular its nominative and accusative forms look the same:

• nominative: время
• accusative: время

So even though the form does not change, the grammatical role does.

A learner may expect a preposition because English says agree on a time, but Russian often expresses this without a preposition:

• согласовать время

Yes. Russian case is about grammatical function, not just visible endings.

In this sentence:

• время is the object of согласовать
• therefore it is in the accusative

But for many neuter nouns, especially in the singular, nominative and accusative are identical in form.

So:

• Это время. = This is the time. → nominative
• Мы согласовали время. = We agreed on the time. → accusative

Same form, different case function.

Yes, it could be omitted.

Russian often leaves out subject pronouns when the verb already makes the subject clear.

Since смогли is plural, the sentence could simply be:

• Смогли согласовать время.

That can still mean We managed to agree on a time, depending on context.

However, мы may be included:

• for clarity
• for emphasis
• to contrast with someone else

For example:

• Мы смогли согласовать время, а они нет.
  We managed to agree on a time, but they didn’t.

So мы is grammatical and natural, but not always necessary.

Согласовать is the perfective verb, and согласовывать is its imperfective partner.

Here, perfective fits because the sentence talks about a completed result:

• the time was successfully agreed on

So:

• Мы смогли согласовать время. = We managed to agree on a time.
  This suggests success and completion.

If you used согласовывать, it would usually sound more like an ongoing process, repeated action, or something viewed without focus on completion.

Examples:

• Мы долго согласовывали время. = We were coordinating the time for a long time.
• Наконец мы согласовали время. = Finally we agreed on a time.

In this sentence, because the idea is we succeeded in getting it done, согласовать is the natural choice.

This is an important difference.

• могли = could / were able to in a more general or situational sense
• смогли = managed to / succeeded in doing something

So:

• Мы могли согласовать время.
  = We could have agreed on a time / We were able to agree on a time
  This may just describe possibility or ability.

• Мы смогли согласовать время.
  = We managed to agree on a time
  This emphasizes that it was actually accomplished.

So смогли usually sounds more result-oriented.

Yes, often it would.

A very common alternative is:

• Мы смогли договориться о времени.

This also means We managed to agree on a time.

The difference is mainly in nuance:

• согласовать время often sounds a bit more like coordinate / arrange / settle, sometimes more formal or practical
• договориться о времени sounds very natural in everyday speech for reaching an agreement

So both can work, but согласовать may feel slightly more administrative, organizational, or schedule-related.

Yes, Russian word order is flexible.

The neutral order here is:

• Мы смогли согласовать время.

But you can change the order for emphasis:

• Время мы смогли согласовать.
  This emphasizes the time: As for the time, we managed to settle it.

• Согласовать время мы смогли.
  This can emphasize that we did manage to agree on the time (perhaps even if other things were not resolved).

Russian word order often reflects focus, contrast, or style, not just grammar.

So the original sentence is the most neutral, but other orders are possible depending on context.