صديقي انتظرني عند محطة القطار.

A careful MSA reading is:

ṣadīqī intaẓaranī ʿinda maḥaṭṭati l-qiṭār

A rough English-friendly guide is:

sa-DEE-qee in-ta-ZA-ra-nee ʿIN-da ma-HAṬ-ṭa-til qi-TAAR

A few sounds to notice:

• ق in القطار is a deep q sound, not an English k
• ح in محطة is a stronger, breathier h
• ع in عند is a throat sound with no exact English equivalent
• ط is an emphatic t

صديق means friend.

The ending -ي is the attached possessive pronoun meaning my.

So:

• صديق = friend
• صديقي = my friend

This is very common in Arabic. Instead of using a separate word for my, Arabic often attaches it directly to the noun.

Because the verb already includes that information.

In Arabic, the past-tense verb انتظر by itself means he waited. So the subject is already built into the verb.

Since the sentence also explicitly says صديقي (my friend), there is no need to add هو.

So Arabic often does this:

• انتظر = he waited
• صديقي انتظرني = my friend waited for me

The ending -ني means me.

So:

• انتظر = he waited
• انتظرني = he waited for me

The important thing is that Arabic uses انتظر with a direct object, while English uses wait for + object.

So literally, Arabic is closer to:

• he waited me

But the natural English meaning is:

• he waited for me

This is just a difference in how the two languages structure the verb.

Yes, in this sentence it is past tense: he waited for me.

But without vowel marks, انتظرني can also be read as the imperative:

• اِنْتَظِرْني = wait for me! (said to one male)

The past form is:

• اِنْتَظَرَني = he waited for me

So the bare spelling is ambiguous, but the context here makes it clear that it is the past tense, because صديقي is functioning as the subject: my friend waited for me.

Yes, you can say both.

Arabic allows both:

• صديقي انتظرني عند محطة القطار
• انتظرني صديقي عند محطة القطار

The first puts my friend first, which can feel a bit more topic-focused: as for my friend, he waited for me...

The second starts with the verb, which is very common in formal Arabic and often feels more neutral.

Both are grammatical.

Here عند means at or by.

So:

• عند محطة القطار = at the train station

If you used في, that would mean more literally in the train station.

Very roughly:

• عند محطة القطار = at the station / by the station
• في محطة القطار = in the station

In many contexts, both could be possible, but عند often suggests location at a place rather than being physically inside it.

Because this is an iḍāfa construction, often called a possessive or noun-link construction.

Literally, محطة القطار is:

• station of the train

But in natural English, that becomes:

• the train station

In an iḍāfa:

• the first noun usually does not take ال
• the second noun can make the whole phrase definite

So:

• محطة القطار = the train station
• not المحطة القطار

Also, when محطة is followed by another noun in this construction, the final ة is pronounced as t, so you hear maḥaṭṭat al-qiṭār rather than just maḥaṭṭa.

Not necessarily. Arabic often uses a singular noun in these compound-like expressions.

So محطة القطار is the normal way to say train station.

This is similar to English compounds like:

• train station
• bus stop
• car door

Even though many trains may use the station, the noun in the expression is still singular.

A fully vowelled version is:

صَديقي اِنْتَظَرَني عِندَ مَحَطَّةِ القِطارِ

A few things to notice:

• عندَ ends with -a
• after عند, محطة is in the genitive: محطةِ
• القطار is also genitive here: القطارِ

In normal Arabic writing, these final short vowels are usually omitted, and many speakers do not pronounce them fully in everyday spoken MSA. So for most learners, the unvowelled sentence is completely normal and acceptable.

You would change both the noun and the verb:

• صديقتي انتظرتني عند محطة القطار

That means my female friend waited for me at the train station.

Changes:

• صديقي → صديقتي = my female friend
• انتظرني → انتظرتني = she waited for me

So the verb agrees with the gender of the subject.