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Toi, tu travailles dans un grand bureau.

Toi, tu travailles dans un grand bureau.
As for you, you work in a big office.
From Lesson 17:Regular -er verbs singular (je parle, tu parles, il parle)·French

Questions & Answers about Toi, tu travailles dans un grand bureau.

Why does the sentence start with Toi, tu instead of just Tu?
Toi is a stressed pronoun. In French, it is very common to use it before the subject pronoun (tu) to add emphasis or to contrast with someone else. It's the equivalent of saying "As for you..." or heavily emphasizing the word "you" in spoken English.
Why does travailles end with an -s, and do I pronounce it?
For regular -er verbs in the present tense, the tu (informal you) form always ends in -es. However, this -es ending is completely silent! You pronounce travailles exactly the same way as the je (I) form, travaille.
Why is grand placed before bureau? Don't French adjectives usually come after the noun?
You are right that most French adjectives go after the noun. However, a small group of common adjectives describing Beauty, Age, Goodness, and Size (often remembered by the acronym BAGS) go before the noun. Because grand describes size, it is placed in front of bureau.
Wait, doesn't bureau mean "desk"?
It does! The word bureau is used for both a piece of furniture ("desk") and the room where people work ("office"). In this sentence, working dans (in) a big office makes the most sense from the context.

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