Learn French: Nous classons l'attestation dans le classeur. - We are filing the certificate in the binder.

Nous classons l'attestation dans le classeur.

We are filing the certificate in the binder.

Breakdown of Nous classons l'attestation dans le classeur.

nous

we / us (object pronoun)

Questions & Answers about Nous classons l'attestation dans le classeur.

The words classer and classeur look very similar. Is a classeur always a binder?

They share the same root! While un classeur translates to a "binder" (like a ring binder) in everyday contexts, in an office setting it can also mean a "filing cabinet". The verb classer means "to file", "to sort", or "to classify".

How would I apply this lesson's causative faire to this sentence to say "We are having the certificate filed"?

You would say Nous faisons classer l'attestation dans le classeur. With the causative construction (faire + infinitive), the subject (nous) causes the action to happen, but doesn't necessarily perform the physical action themselves.

If I want to say "We are making him file it", how do the double pronouns work with the causative faire here?

It becomes Nous la lui faisons classer dans le classeur. When a causative sentence has both a direct object (what is being filed: la) and an agent being directed to do it (who is filing: lui), both pronouns are placed before the conjugated verb (faisons).

Why is the pronoun order la lui and not lui la in that causative sentence?