Мы пришли на барахолку.

Пришли is the past tense plural of прийти, which means to arrive / to come (and reach the destination).

So Мы пришли на барахолку means something like We came to the flea market / We arrived at the flea market.

Compare:

• мы шли = we were going / we were walking
  This focuses on the process, not the arrival.
• мы ходили = we went / used to go
  This often means a completed trip there and back, or a habitual action.
• мы пришли = we arrived / we came

So if the speaker wants to say that they actually reached the flea market, пришли is the natural choice.

Because the subject is мы (we).

In the past tense, Russian verbs agree with gender/number, not person:

• пришёл = he came
• пришла = she came
• пришло = it came
• пришли = they came / we came

So with мы, you use the plural form: пришли.

Because after на, Russian uses different cases depending on the meaning:

• на + accusative = movement to a place
• на + prepositional = location at / on a place

Here the sentence expresses movement toward the flea market:

• Мы пришли на барахолку = We came to the flea market

But if you mean being there, you would say:

• Мы были на барахолке = We were at the flea market

So:

• на барахолку = destination
• на барахолке = location

The dictionary form is барахолка.

Here it becomes барахолку because it is in the accusative singular, required after на when showing motion toward a place.

For many feminine nouns ending in -а, the accusative singular changes:

• -а → -у

Examples:

• школа → в школу
• работа → на работу
• барахолка → на барахолку

So на барахолку is exactly what you would expect grammatically.

Барахолка usually means flea market, junk market, or an informal market where people sell second-hand, old, cheap, or miscellaneous items.

It comes from барахло, which means junk, stuff, or odds and ends.

Depending on context, барахолка can sound:

• neutral: a normal flea market
• slightly informal: a place where old or random stuff is sold

So it is a common everyday word, not a highly formal one.

Russian uses different prepositions with places, and this often does not match English exactly.

Many destinations take в:

• в школу = to school
• в магазин = to the store

But some places conventionally take на:

• на рынок = to the market
• на почту = to the post office
• на вокзал = to the station
• на барахолку = to the flea market

This is mostly something you learn as part of the noun’s usual pattern. For барахолка, the normal choice is на.

It can mean either, depending on how you translate it naturally in English.

Because прийти / пришли emphasizes reaching the destination, arrived is often a very good translation.

So these are both possible:

• We came to the flea market
• We arrived at the flea market

The Russian sentence leans a bit more toward the idea of having gotten there successfully than just the general motion.

Yes, historically and grammatically, прийти / пришли is the verb of motion associated with going on foot.

Compare:

• прийти / пришли = come/arrive on foot
• приехать / приехали = come/arrive by transport
• прилететь / прилетели = come/arrive by flying
• приплыть / приплыли = come/arrive by swimming/sailing

In real life, though, Russian speakers do sometimes use these verbs a little flexibly depending on context. But in a textbook sense, пришли suggests arrival on foot.

Yes, Russian often can omit subject pronouns when the meaning is clear from the verb or context.

So both of these are possible:

• Мы пришли на барахолку.
• Пришли на барахолку.

Including мы makes the subject explicit. It may sound:

• clearer
• more contrastive
• slightly more emphatic

For example, мы пришли, а они нет = we came, but they didn’t.

So мы is not wrong or unnecessary; it just makes the subject overt.

Yes. Russian word order is more flexible than English because case endings show grammatical roles.

The neutral order here is:

• Мы пришли на барахолку.

But other orders are possible for emphasis:

• На барахолку мы пришли.
  Emphasizes the flea market as the destination.
• Пришли мы на барахолку.
  Can sound more narrative or contrastive depending on context.

Even though the order can change, the most straightforward version for learners is the original one.

The stress is:

• мы пришли́ на барахо́лку

More specifically:

• пришли́ — stress on the last syllable
• барахо́лка — stress on хо́

This matters because Russian stress is mobile and not always predictable.

Russian has no articles like a or the.

So на барахолку can mean:

• to a flea market
• to the flea market

Which one is meant depends on context.

English requires an article, but Russian does not. Learners often need to get used to the fact that definiteness is usually understood from the situation rather than marked by a separate word.

Sometimes yes, but it is not the most exact translation.

We went to the flea market in English can simply describe the event of going there.
But Мы пришли на барахолку specifically says they came/arrived there.

A closer match would be:

• We came to the flea market
• We arrived at the flea market

If you want a more general went, Russian might use something like мы ходили на барахолку, depending on context.

Прийти is perfective.

That matters because perfective verbs present the action as a completed whole or as reaching a result. Here, the result is arrival.

So мы пришли means the action is completed: they got there.

The imperfective partner is приходить:

• мы приходили на барахолку = we came to the flea market / used to come / had come, depending on context, usually without focus on a single completed arrival in the same way

For a simple completed event in the past, пришли is the normal choice.