בכל מקרה, אני אחכה לך ליד הכניסה.

בכל מקרה is a very common expression meaning in any case, anyway, or at any rate.

Literally, it is made of:

• ב־ = in
• כל = every / all
• מקרה = case

So the literal sense is in every case, but in natural English it usually comes across as anyway or in any case.

Because Hebrew usually does not use a separate word like English will to form the future. Instead, the verb itself changes form.

So:

• אני = I
• אחכה = will wait

The future meaning is built into אחכה. This is the future-tense form of the verb לחכות (to wait).

It is pronounced roughly a-kha-KE.

A few helpful notes:

• The ח sound is the throaty sound heard in German Bach or Scottish loch.
• The stress is on the last syllable: a-kha-KE.
• The final ה here is not pronounced like an English h.

Because the verb לחכות works with the preposition ל־ when you say who you are waiting for.

So in Hebrew, you wait to/for someone:

• לחכות למישהו = to wait for someone

That is why:

• אני אחכה לך = I’ll wait for you

Using אותך here would sound wrong with this verb.

Grammatically, לך is the prepositional form to you. But with the verb לחכות, English translates it as for you.

So:

• literal structure: I will wait to you
• natural English meaning: I will wait for you

This is a very common thing in language learning: the Hebrew preposition does not always match the English one.

In unpointed Hebrew, לך can mean either:

• to/for you masculine singular
• to/for you feminine singular

The difference is in pronunciation:

• to a man: lekha
• to a woman: lakh (or lach)

So the written sentence אני אחכה לך ליד הכניסה could be said to either a man or a woman. The spelling stays the same in normal modern writing.

ליד means next to, beside, or by.

So:

• ליד הכניסה = by the entrance / next to the entrance

It is used here to show location. The speaker is saying where they will wait.

Because ה־ is the Hebrew word the attached to the noun.

So:

• כניסה = an entrance / entrance
• הכניסה = the entrance

In this sentence, the speaker means a specific entrance, so הכניסה is the natural form.

Good question. Some very short Hebrew prepositions attach directly to the following word, such as:

• ב־ = in
• ל־ = to
• כ־ = like/as

But ליד is a separate word, not a one-letter prefix. So it stays separate:

• ליד הכניסה

The ה־ stays with כניסה:

• הכניסה = the entrance

The sentence is most natural as:

• בכל מקרה, אני אחכה לך ליד הכניסה.

Putting בכל מקרה at the beginning works well because it sets the tone of the whole sentence: anyway / in any case.

You can sometimes move it, but the sentence may sound less natural or have a slightly different emphasis. For example:

• אני אחכה לך ליד הכניסה בכל מקרה

That can work in some contexts, but it often sounds more like I’ll wait for you by the entrance no matter what, which is a slightly different emphasis.

No. In the future tense, אני אחכה is the same whether the speaker is male or female.

So both a man and a woman can say:

• אני אחכה = I will wait

The part that may change is the addressee:

• לך for singular you
• לכם / לכן for plural you

The dictionary form is לחכות = to wait.

Some useful related forms are:

• מחכה = waiting / waits (masculine singular present)
• מחכה = waiting / waits (feminine singular present too, in unpointed writing)
• חיכיתי = I waited
• אחכה = I will wait

So if you learn לחכות, it becomes easier to recognize אחכה as one of its future-tense forms.