The verb pair приносить/принести is usually translated as ‘to bring.’ It conjugates like this:

The bringer appears in the nominative case, and the thing brought appears in the accusative:

When you bring something to a person, the person appears in the dative case.

When you bring something to a place, you usually use в/на + accusative:

For English speakers we must keep in mind a couple caveats about this verb pair. First of fall, since the verb implies taking something somewhere in your own arms, you can't use it to say you brought a person to a place unless the person you bring is a baby. Secondly, if you bring something from another city or country, you should use the verb привозить/привезти, which implies motion by vehicle.

The verb pair приезжать/приехать is usually translated as “to arrive, come,” and it implies movement by vehicle. It conjugates like this:

In English we often use the preposition “at” with the verb “arrive,” so we have to bear in mind that for Russians arrival is a motion; that is, you complement the verb with either в/на + accusative or with к + dative:

One point of translation: in English if you see a vehicle approaching, you may say “Here comes the bus/train/taxi.” In Russian you will never use приезжать/приехать in that context. Instead you most commonly use the verb идти.

The verb pair приходить/прийти is usually translated as “to arrive, come.” First, a quick reminder of how the verb conjugates. Note that the -й occurs only in the perfective infinitive:

Previously we discussed how to say one arrived at a place, but how do you say you arrived from a place? That depends. You will recall that there are three different words for ‘to’ in Russian, and they are в, на and к. The default word is в. If you go to a place using в, you come back from it using из + genitive:

If you go to a place using на, then you come from it using с + genitive:

If you have returned from seeing a particular individual, then you use от + genitive:

Beware of one potential problem when translating from English to Russian. Let's say you are walking across campus and spot your friend. In English you might say “Where are you coming from?” A Russian will never use the verb приходить/прийти in this context. Instead they just use идти:

Previously we discussed выходить/выйти in the sense of ‘to exit, walk out of, step out of.’ Today we want to focus on a subset of those meanings. The past tense of the verb is often used to mean “to leave a place with the intention of returning shortly.” When used this way, it is often accompanied by the preposition на followed by a time phrase in the accusative:

The Russian verb that means ‘to exit, walk out of, step out of’ is выходить/выйти:

The verb is most often used with the preposition из and the genitive case to indicate the place from which the subject is leaving. Although the essential meaning of the verb is 'to exit,' it often sounds stiff to use 'exit' in translation. A good translation will substitute other phrases that capture the same idea but flow better: