Мои родные ждут меня дома.

Here родные is an adjective being used like a noun.

The basic adjective родной means native, dear, close, one’s own by blood or strong emotional bond. In the plural, родные often means relatives, family, or loved ones depending on context.

So мои родные is a very natural way to say my family / my relatives / my loved ones.

This is common in Russian: an adjective can stand on its own when the noun is understood.

Because the speaker is talking about more than one person.

• мой родной = my dear relative / my close one, masculine singular
• моя родная = feminine singular
• мои родные = plural

The possessive мои must agree with родные in number and case, so both are plural here.

Because ждать takes a direct object, and direct objects in Russian usually do not stay in the nominative.

• я = I (subject form, nominative)
• меня = form used here after ждать

So in this sentence:

• Мои родные = the subject, the people doing the waiting
• ждут = are waiting / wait
• меня = the person being waited for

English uses me, not I, in the same way: My family is waiting for me, not waiting for I.

It is the accusative case.

The verb ждать normally takes the accusative for the person or thing being awaited:

• ждать меня = to wait for me
• ждать тебя = to wait for you
• ждать маму = to wait for mom

For some nouns, Russian can also use the genitive after ждать, especially in certain styles or meanings, but for a beginner the most useful rule is:

ждать + accusative

With personal pronouns, меня is the normal form you should expect.

Because дома means at home, while в доме means in the house/building.

That is an important difference:

• Я дома = I am at home
• Я в доме = I am in the house

In your sentence, дома refers to the idea of home as the place where the speaker lives or belongs, not just any building.

So:

• Мои родные ждут меня дома = My family is waiting for me at home

If you said в доме, it would sound more like you are emphasizing physical location inside a house.

In this sentence, дома functions as an adverb, meaning at home.

Even though it looks like a noun form related to дом, learners should treat дома in expressions like я дома or жду тебя дома as a fixed adverbial word meaning at home.

So it is best understood as:

• дома = at home

not as an ordinary noun phrase.

Ждут is the 3rd person plural form of ждать.

That form is used because the subject мои родные is plural.

Compare:

• я жду = I wait / am waiting
• ты ждёшь = you wait
• он/она ждёт = he/she waits
• мы ждём = we wait
• вы ждёте = you wait
• они ждут = they wait

Since мои родные = they, the sentence needs ждут.

Because Russian does not normally use a present-tense form of to be in sentences like this.

English says:

• My family are waiting at home

Russian simply says:

• Мои родные ждут меня дома

The present-tense meaning is understood from the verb ждут itself.

Also, Russian present tense often covers both:

• wait
• are waiting

The exact English translation depends on context.

Yes. Russian word order is more flexible than English, although the emphasis changes.

The neutral order here is:

• Мои родные ждут меня дома.

Other possible orders include:

• Дома мои родные ждут меня.
• Меня ждут дома мои родные.
• Меня мои родные ждут дома.

These all keep roughly the same basic meaning, but they shift focus:

• putting дома first emphasizes at home
• putting меня first emphasizes me

For a learner, the original version is the safest and most neutral.

It can definitely sound warmer.

Depending on context, мои родные may mean:

• my relatives
• my family
• my loved ones
• my dear ones

So it often feels more emotional and personal than the plain English word relatives.

That warmth comes from родной, which is not just about blood relation but also closeness and emotional connection.