Je vais faire relire mon résumé à Marie avant de l’envoyer.

Je vais + infinitive is the near future in French. It means I’m going to ...

So:

• je relis = I reread / I am rereading
• je vais relire = I’m going to reread
• je vais faire relire = I’m going to have someone reread / proofread

The extra verb faire changes the meaning a lot. It introduces the idea of causing someone else to do the action.

Faire + infinitive is a very common French structure called the causative. It means to make / have someone do something.

So:

• relire = to reread
• faire relire = to have someone reread

In this sentence, Je vais faire relire mon résumé à Marie means I’m going to have Marie reread my summary.

In natural English, that often becomes I’m going to have Marie proofread my summary.

With faire + infinitive, the person who performs the action is often introduced with à when that person is an indirect object.

So:

• faire relire quelque chose à quelqu’un = to have someone reread something

Here:

• mon résumé is the thing being reread
• à Marie is the person who will do the rereading

Using par Marie would sound more like a passive idea such as by Marie, which is not the normal structure here.

Because with faire + infinitive, French often puts the thing being acted on before the person who does the action.

So the pattern is often:

faire + infinitive + thing + person

Here:

• faire relire mon résumé à Marie

That literally looks like:

• have reread my summary to Marie

But the real meaning is:

• have Marie reread my summary

This word order can feel strange to English speakers, but it is normal in French.

It can mean both, depending on context.

Literally, relire means to reread. But when the thing being reread is a piece of writing like mon résumé, it often naturally means:

• to review
• to proofread
• to check over

So in this sentence, proofread is a very natural translation.

No. In French, un résumé usually means a summary.

That is different from the English word résumé, which means CV or job history document.

So mon résumé here almost certainly means my summary, not my résumé/CV.

If French wanted to say the English-style résumé, it would more commonly use CV.

After avant, when the subject stays the same and the next verb is in the infinitive, French uses:

avant de + infinitive

So:

• avant de partir = before leaving
• avant de manger = before eating
• avant de l’envoyer = before sending it

You cannot say avant l’envoyer here.

L’ is the direct object pronoun le or la, shortened before a vowel.

Here it refers to mon résumé.

So:

• envoyer mon résumé = to send my summary
• l’envoyer = to send it

Because envoyer begins with a vowel sound, le/la becomes l’.

In French, object pronouns usually come before the verb they belong to.

So:

• envoyer le résumé = to send the summary
• l’envoyer = to send it

Even though English says send it, French says the equivalent of it send in word order.

That is normal for French pronouns.

From context and grammar.

The nearest suitable noun is mon résumé, and it makes sense semantically:

• I’m going to have Marie reread my summary
• before sending it

So l’ clearly refers to mon résumé.

Because they are doing two different jobs:

• de belongs to the expression avant de + infinitive
• l’ is the object pronoun meaning it

So:

• avant de = before
• l’envoyer = sending it

Together:

• avant de l’envoyer = before sending it

Yes. A very close alternative is:

Je vais demander à Marie de relire mon résumé avant de l’envoyer.

That means:

I’m going to ask Marie to reread my summary before sending it.

The original sentence with faire relire is a bit more compact and focuses on having the action done. The version with demander à Marie de... focuses more on asking Marie.

Both are natural, but they are not exactly identical in tone.

Yes, very common. Once you know the pattern, you can use it with many verbs:

• faire réparer la voiture = to have the car repaired
• faire laver les vitres = to have the windows cleaned
• faire traduire un texte = to have a text translated
• faire relire un texte = to have a text reread / proofread

It is one of the most useful French verb structures to learn.

Because envoyer is in the infinitive, and the subject is understood from the main clause.

In this sentence, the understood subject of envoyer is the speaker: je.

So the meaning is:

I’m going to have Marie proofread my summary before I send it.

French does not need to repeat je before envoyer here.

Normally, no. The most natural interpretation is before I send it, because the understood subject usually connects back to the main subject, je.

If you wanted to make Marie the sender, French would normally make that clearer with a different structure.

So the default reading is:

I’m going to have Marie proofread my summary before sending it myself.