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Nous vous envoyons ci-inclus le dossier fiscal pour la comptabilité.

Nous vous envoyons ci-inclus le dossier fiscal pour la comptabilité.
We are sending you the enclosed tax file for the accounting.
From Lesson 426:Positional adjective agreement (ci-joint, ci-inclus)·French

Questions & Answers about Nous vous envoyons ci-inclus le dossier fiscal pour la comptabilité.

Is ci-inclus acting as an adjective here, and does it agree with le dossier?
In this position, it actually acts more like an adverb meaning 'herewith enclosed'. The rule is that ci-inclus and ci-joint remain invariable (unchanged) when placed directly before a noun that is introduced by a determiner like le, la, or les. Because le dossier is masculine singular, the spelling wouldn't change anyway, but if you were sending multiple files, you would still write Nous vous envoyons ci-inclus les dossiers. If you placed the word after the noun, it would act as a normal adjective and agree: les dossiers ci-inclus or la lettre ci-incluse.
How do I choose between using ci-inclus and ci-joint?
Both are formal administrative terms used in business correspondence, and they are largely interchangeable today. Technically, ci-inclus means 'enclosed' (placed loose inside the same envelope or package), while ci-joint means 'attached' (like a stapled or paperclipped document). For modern emails, ci-joint is the standard term used for an electronic attachment.
Does fiscal just mean 'financial' like it often does in English?
No, in French, fiscal is a 'false friend' because it specifically refers to taxes or taxation. Therefore, le dossier fiscal translates precisely to 'the tax file' or 'the tax records'. If you want to refer to 'financial' matters in a broader business sense, you should use the adjective financier.
Why is vous placed before the verb envoyons?
vous is acting as an indirect object pronoun here, representing the recipient of the action ('to you'). As a quick refresher, French places object pronouns immediately before the conjugated verb they belong to, which gives us Nous vous envoyons (literally: We to you send).

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