Puella ad angulum vici stat et amicam exspectat.

Puella is in the nominative singular, which is the form Latin commonly uses for the subject of a sentence.

• puella = girl as subject
• not puellam = girl as direct object

So in Puella ad angulum vici stat et amicam exspectat, puella is the one doing the actions: stat and exspectat.

Latin does not have articles like English the and a/an.

So puella can mean:

• the girl
• a girl

Which one sounds best depends on the context or the translation you were given.

The same is true for other nouns here:

• angulum = the corner or a corner
• amicam = the friend or a friend

The preposition ad means to, toward, or often at/by with places. After ad, Latin normally uses the accusative case.

So:

• angulus = corner (dictionary form / nominative)
• angulum = corner in the accusative, because it follows ad

Thus ad angulum means at the corner or to the corner, depending on context.

Vici is the genitive singular of vicus, a noun meaning street, district, or neighborhood.

Here it means of the street:

• angulus vici = the corner of the street

This is a very common Latin pattern: one noun followed by another noun in the genitive to show possession or relationship.

So:

• vicus = street/neighborhood (subject form)
• vici = of the street/neighborhood

Yes, literally ad often means to/toward. But with locations, Latin often uses ad + accusative in a way that English may translate more naturally as at or by.

So ad angulum vici stat is idiomatic Latin for something like:

• she is standing at the corner of the street
• she stands by the corner of the street

Latin and English do not always match prepositions exactly.

Stat comes from stare, meaning to stand. It tells you the girl is in an upright position, not just that she exists somewhere.

Compare:

• est = is
• stat = stands / is standing

So puella ... stat is more vivid than just saying the girl is there.

Yes. Stat is third person singular present active indicative of stare.

That means:

• she stands
• or in smoother English, she is standing

Latin present tense often covers both simple present and present progressive English meanings.

Amicam is the accusative singular of amica, meaning female friend.

It is accusative because it is the direct object of exspectat:

• the girl is waiting for her friend

So:

• amica = friend (subject form)
• amicam = friend (object form)

Yes, it is related, but you should be careful. In this sentence, exspectat means waits for.

So:

• amicam exspectat = she is waiting for her friend

Although English expect and Latin exspectare are related historically, in many beginner Latin sentences exspectare is best understood as to wait for.

Latin often leaves subject pronouns unstated because the verb ending already tells you who the subject is.

• stat = he/she/it stands
• exspectat = he/she/it waits for

Since puella is already named as the subject, Latin does not need to add ea (she). English usually does, but Latin usually does not.

Latin word order is more flexible because the endings show the grammatical roles.

English depends heavily on position:

• The girl waits for her friend

Latin can show the roles through case endings:

• puella = subject
• amicam = object

So even if the order changes, the meaning usually stays clear. For example, these would still mean essentially the same thing:

• Puella ad angulum vici stat et amicam exspectat.
• Amicam puella ad angulum vici stat et exspectat.
• Ad angulum vici puella stat et amicam exspectat.

The original order is perfectly natural, but Latin is not locked into English-style subject-verb-object order.

Grammatically, amica simply means female friend. Whether it should be translated as friend or girlfriend depends entirely on context.

In a basic sentence like this, the safest meaning is usually just friend.

Et means and, and here it joins the two actions done by the same subject:

• stat = stands
• exspectat = waits for

So the structure is:

• The girl stands ... and waits for her friend

This is a very common Latin pattern: one subject followed by two verbs joined by et.