אף אחד לא מחכה לי ליד התחנה.

Yes, אף אחד means no one / nobody, but in standard Hebrew it normally appears together with לא in negative sentences.

So Hebrew says:

• אף אחד לא מחכה לי
  literally: no one not is-waiting for me

But the real meaning is simply:

• No one is waiting for me

This is a normal Hebrew pattern, not a double negative in the English sense.
You will see the same structure in many sentences:

• אף אחד לא בא = No one came / is coming
• אף פעם לא ראיתי את זה = I never saw that
• שום דבר לא קרה = Nothing happened

אף אחד literally means not even one, and in everyday Hebrew it is used for no one / nobody.

It is grammatically masculine singular, because אחד means one in the masculine form. That is why the verb here is also masculine singular:

• אף אחד לא מחכה

If you wanted to be more explicitly feminine in some contexts, Hebrew sometimes uses אף אחת, but אף אחד is often used generically for people in general.

So in this sentence:

• אף אחד = nobody / no one

Because the subject אף אחד is grammatically singular.

Even though in English no one refers to zero people, grammatically it behaves like a singular expression. Hebrew does the same here:

• אף אחד לא מחכה = No one is waiting

So the verb is singular masculine present:

• מחכה = waiting / waits

If the subject were plural, the verb would also be plural. But אף אחד takes singular agreement.

מחכה is the present tense masculine singular form of the verb לחכות, meaning to wait.

Here are the present-tense forms:

• מחכה — masculine singular
• מחכה — feminine singular
  same spelling, different pronunciation in careful speech
• מחכים — masculine plural
• מחכות — feminine plural

In this sentence, it matches אף אחד, which is masculine singular.

לי is the preposition ל־ (to / for) plus the pronoun י (me), so:

• לי = to me / for me

With the verb לחכות (to wait), Hebrew usually uses ל־ for the person being waited for:

• אני מחכה לך = I’m waiting for you
• היא מחכה לנו = She’s waiting for us
• אף אחד לא מחכה לי = No one is waiting for me

This is different from English, where we just say wait for someone. In Hebrew, think of it as wait to/for someone with ל־.

In this sentence, ליד means next to / by / beside / near.

• ליד התחנה = next to the station / by the station

This is a very common preposition in modern Hebrew.

A few useful notes:

• ליד = beside / next to / by
• על יד can also mean next to / near, and in many cases it is close in meaning to ליד
• ביד is something completely different: it means in the hand / by hand, because יד means hand

So:

• ליד התחנה = near the station
• ביד = in the hand

They may look similar, but they are unrelated in meaning here.

התחנה means the station. The prefix ה־ is the Hebrew definite article, equivalent to English the.

So:

• תחנה = a station / station
• התחנה = the station

In this sentence:

• ליד התחנה = near the station

If the sentence used ליד תחנה, it would sound incomplete or unnatural in most normal contexts unless there were a special reason not to specify it.

Yes, Hebrew word order is somewhat flexible.

The basic sentence here is:

• אף אחד לא מחכה לי ליד התחנה

This is a very natural neutral order: subject + negation + verb + object/complement + place

But Hebrew can move things around for emphasis or style. For example:

• ליד התחנה אף אחד לא מחכה לי
  = Near the station, no one is waiting for me

That version puts more emphasis on the location.

So the original sentence is the most straightforward, but other orders are possible depending on focus.

Yes. Hebrew present tense often covers both:

• waits
• is waiting

So:

• אף אחד לא מחכה לי can mean:
  • No one waits for me
  • No one is waiting for me

In most real-life contexts, the second translation sounds more natural in English.

Hebrew does not have a separate am/is/are + verb-ing form like English does, so the present participle form often does both jobs.

You keep the same structure and just change לי.

Examples:

• אף אחד לא מחכה לנו = No one is waiting for us
• אף אחד לא מחכה לך = No one is waiting for you (to a male)
• אף אחד לא מחכה לךְ = No one is waiting for you (to a female)
• אף אחד לא מחכה לו = No one is waiting for him
• אף אחד לא מחכה לה = No one is waiting for her
• אף אחד לא מחכה להם = No one is waiting for them (masculine/mixed)
• אף אחד לא מחכה להן = No one is waiting for them (feminine)

So the pattern is:

• אף אחד לא מחכה + ל־ + pronoun

Yes, that is also possible:

• אין אף אחד שמחכה לי ליד התחנה

This means roughly:

• There is no one who is waiting for me near the station

Compared with:

• אף אחד לא מחכה לי ליד התחנה

the version with אין sounds a little more like there isn’t anyone..., while the original sounds more direct: no one is waiting...

Both are correct, but the original sentence is simpler and very common.

Not always. תחנה means station or stop, depending on context.

It can refer to things like:

• a bus stop
• a train station
• a radio station
• a police station

So ליד התחנה by itself means near the station / stop, but the exact kind of station depends on the context.

If you want to be specific, Hebrew can say:

• תחנת אוטובוס = bus stop
• תחנת רכבת = train station
• תחנת משטרה = police station

In this specific sentence, it would usually not change at all.

That is because the verb מחכה agrees with אף אחד (no one), not with the speaker. And אף אחד is masculine singular grammatically.

So both a male speaker and a female speaker can say:

• אף אחד לא מחכה לי ליד התחנה

The word לי means for me, but it does not show the speaker’s gender.

So the sentence stays the same.