Le chauffeur de taxi nous attend devant la gare.

Chauffeur de taxi is the normal French way to say taxi driver as a job or type of person.

• un chauffeur de taxi = a taxi driver
• le chauffeur de taxi = the taxi driver

Using de taxi here is like saying what kind of driver he is.

If you said le chauffeur du taxi, that would mean the driver of the taxi, referring to a specific taxi rather than the person’s profession. That is possible in some contexts, but it is not the usual way to say taxi driver.

In French, after de, a noun often appears without an article when it describes a category, function, or type.

So:

• un chauffeur de taxi = a taxi driver
• une salle de classe = a classroom
• une tasse de thé = a cup of tea

Here, taxi is not being introduced as a separate, specific thing. It is just helping define what kind of chauffeur this is.

Here, nous means us.

So:

• Le chauffeur de taxi nous attend = The taxi driver is waiting for us.

It is a direct object pronoun in this sentence.

In French, object pronouns usually come before the conjugated verb.

So French says:

• Il nous attend = He is waiting for us.

English puts us after the verb, but French places it before:

• me = me
• te = you
• le / la = him / it / her
• nous = us
• vous = you
• les = them

This word order is very common in French and is something English speakers need to get used to.

Because the subject is Le chauffeur de taxi, which is third person singular: he.

The verb is attendre and in the present tense:

• j’attends
• tu attends
• il/elle/on attend
• nous attendons
• vous attendez
• ils/elles attendent

So:

• Le chauffeur de taxi attend = The taxi driver waits / is waiting

The -s in attends is for je and tu, not for il.

Yes. This is an important difference from English.

In French:

• attendre quelqu’un = to wait for someone
• attendre le train = to wait for the train

French does not use a separate word for “for” here.

So:

• Il nous attend = He is waiting for us.
• not Il attend pour nous in this meaning

That is a very common learner mistake.

Devant means in front of or outside, at the front of, depending on context.

Here:

• devant la gare = in front of the station

It tells you where the taxi driver is waiting.

This is a very common confusion.

• devant usually refers to position in space: in front of
• avant usually refers to time: before

Examples:

• Il attend devant la gare. = He is waiting in front of the station.
• Il arrive avant midi. = He arrives before noon.

So in your sentence, devant is correct because it describes location.

French uses articles much more often than English.

So French usually says:

• la gare = the station
• à la gare = at the station
• devant la gare = in front of the station

Even when English might sometimes sound more natural without a strong emphasis on the, French generally keeps the article.

Usually, yes.

La gare most often means a train station.

If you want to say bus station, French often says:

• la gare routière

A general station in English is not always gare in French. For example:

• station de métro = metro station
• station-service = gas station / petrol station

So gare is common, but it does not cover every kind of station.

The sentence follows a very normal French order:

• Le chauffeur de taxi = subject
• nous = object pronoun
• attend = verb
• devant la gare = place expression

So the pattern is:

subject + object pronoun + verb + place

That is why it is:

• Le chauffeur de taxi nous attend devant la gare.

and not something like English word order with us after the verb.

Yes.

The French present tense can often translate into English as either:

• waits
• is waiting

So:

• Le chauffeur de taxi nous attend devant la gare.

can mean:

• The taxi driver waits for us in front of the station.
• The taxi driver is waiting for us in front of the station.

In most real situations, is waiting is the more natural English translation.

Yes, usually there is a liaison between nous and attend.

You will often hear something like:

• nou-z-attend

That z sound links the final s of nous to the vowel at the start of attend.

A rough pronunciation of the whole sentence is:

• luh sho-fœr duh tak-see noo-zah-tahn duh-vahn lah gahr

The final consonants in attend are not fully pronounced in the normal way, so it sounds roughly like ah-tahn.

Yes, but the meaning changes slightly.

• Le chauffeur de taxi nous attend devant la gare. = The taxi driver is waiting for us in front of the station.
• Le chauffeur de taxi attend devant la gare. = The taxi driver is waiting in front of the station.

Without nous, you no longer say who he is waiting for.

Yes, both are possible, but they mean different things.

• Le chauffeur de taxi = the taxi driver
• Un chauffeur de taxi = a taxi driver

Use le when the person is known or already identifiable in the situation. Use un when you are introducing him as one among many possible taxi drivers.

So the sentence with le sounds like both speaker and listener know which taxi driver is meant.