Pour l’entretien de demain, je vais me faire relire le dernier brouillon par Marie avant de l’envoyer en pièce jointe par courriel.

For tomorrow’s interview, I am going to have Marie reread the latest draft before sending it as an email attachment.

Breakdown of Pour l’entretien de demain, je vais me faire relire le dernier brouillon par Marie avant de l’envoyer en pièce jointe par courriel.

• je: I
• Marie: Marie
• aller: to go
• demain: tomorrow

Questions & Answers about Pour l’entretien de demain, je vais me faire relire le dernier brouillon par Marie avant de l’envoyer en pièce jointe par courriel.

Why does the sentence start with Pour l’entretien de demain?

Here pour means for or with a view to. So Pour l’entretien de demain sets the context: this is being done for tomorrow’s interview.

A native English speaker might expect something like For tomorrow’s interview at the end of the sentence, but in French it is very natural to put this kind of context phrase at the beginning.

Also, entretien can mean different things depending on context:

• interview
• meeting
• sometimes even maintenance in other contexts

Here, since the meaning has already been given, it is clearly the interview/meeting sense.

Why is it l’entretien and not le entretien?

Because le becomes l’ before a vowel sound.

So:

• le entretien → incorrect
• l’entretien → correct

This is called elision. French often drops the final vowel of a short word before another word that begins with a vowel or silent h.

Other examples:

• le ami → l’ami
• je ai → j’ai

Why does French use here instead of a simple future tense?