מישהי מחכה לי ליד הדלת.

מישהי is the feminine form of someone / somebody.

• מישהו = someone male / someone of unspecified gender in many contexts
• מישהי = someone female

So the speaker is specifically referring to a female person, even if they are not naming her.

Not by itself. מישהי only tells you that the person is female.

Depending on context, English might translate it as:

• some woman
• some girl
• someone

Hebrew does not force you to specify the person’s age here.

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

A useful way to think about it:

• לחכות = to wait
• מחכה = waiting / waits / is waiting

In Hebrew, the present tense often covers both the English simple present and present progressive:

• היא מחכה = she waits / she is waiting

Because Hebrew verbs in the present tense agree with the subject in gender and number.

Here the subject is:

• מישהי = feminine singular

So the verb must also be feminine singular.

One interesting detail: in everyday unpointed Hebrew, the masculine singular and feminine singular of מחכה are spelled the same. Context tells you which one it is. Since מישהי is feminine, you understand מחכה as feminine here.

Because Hebrew normally does not use a separate present-tense verb to be in sentences like this.

English says:

• She is waiting

Hebrew simply says:

• היא מחכה

So מחכה already carries the idea of is waiting.

לי means to me or for me, depending on the verb and context.

It is made of:

• ל־ = to / for
• י = me

With the verb לחכות, Hebrew uses ל־ for the person being waited for:

• לחכות לי = to wait for me
• לחכות לו = to wait for him
• לחכות להם = to wait for them

So although לי is literally to me, in natural English here it is for me.

ליד is a preposition meaning:

• by
• next to
• beside
• near

So ליד הדלת describes location: the person is waiting by/near the door.

Because ה־ is the Hebrew definite article, meaning the.

• דלת = a door / door
• הדלת = the door

So ליד הדלת means by the door, not just by a door.

Yes. מישהי מחכה לי ליד הדלת is a very natural word order.

It follows a common pattern:

• subject
  • verb
    • other information

So:

• מישהי = subject
• מחכה = verb
• לי = for me
• ליד הדלת = by the door

Hebrew can be flexible with word order, but this version sounds completely normal and conversational.

Yes. Hebrew often allows that.

For example:

• ליד הדלת מישהי מחכה לי

That puts the location first, a bit like saying:

• By the door, some woman is waiting for me

The original sentence is still the most neutral, straightforward version.

No. It is a prepositional object, because the verb לחכות takes ל־ before the person.

So Hebrew does not structure this like English wait me. It structures it more like wait for me.

That is why you get:

• מחכה לי not
• מחכה אני or a direct-object form

Yes. In most cases, that is a very good way to think about Hebrew present tense.

So מישהי מחכה לי ליד הדלת can match English:

• A woman is waiting for me by the door
• Some girl waits for me by the door

In real-life translation, is waiting is usually the more natural choice here.