Je vais refaire le résumé avant de l’envoyer.

Je vais + infinitive is the near future in French. It is very common in everyday speech and often sounds a bit more immediate or planned.

• Je vais refaire le résumé = I’m going to redo the summary
• Je referai le résumé = I will redo the summary

Both are possible here.

A rough difference:

• je vais refaire: often feels more immediate, conversational, or already decided
• je referai: often feels a bit more neutral, sometimes slightly more formal or written

So this sentence uses a very natural spoken-style future.

Refaire literally means to do again or to redo.

It is built from:

• re- = again
• faire = to do / to make

In this sentence, refaire le résumé usually means something like:

• redo the summary
• revise the summary
• rewrite the summary

So it does not necessarily mean starting from zero; it can also mean reworking or improving it.

In French, you usually need an article before a noun in this kind of sentence.

So French says:

• le résumé

where English might simply say:

• the summary

Here le shows that we are talking about a specific summary, not just the idea of a summary in general.

French uses articles more often than English, so leaving it out would sound unnatural.

French uses avant de + infinitive when the subject of both actions is the same.

In this sentence, the same person:

• will redo the summary
• will send it

So French uses:

• avant de l’envoyer = before sending it / before I send it

If the subject changes, French normally uses avant que + subjunctive:

• Je vais refaire le résumé avant qu’il l’envoie. = I’m going to redo the summary before he sends it.

So the rule is basically:

• same subject → avant de + infinitive
• different subject → avant que + subjunctive

L’ stands for le, and it refers back to le résumé.

So:

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

French often replaces a repeated noun with a direct object pronoun, just like English uses it.

Because le comes before a word starting with a vowel (envoyer), it becomes l’.

So:

• le envoyer ❌
• l’envoyer ✅

In French, object pronouns normally go before the verb they belong to.

Here, l’ is the object of envoyer, so it goes right before envoyer:

• envoyer le résumé
• le résumé becomes l’
• so: l’envoyer

That is different from English, where the object pronoun usually comes after the verb:

• send it

French:

• l’envoyer = literally it to send

This word order is very normal in French infinitive structures.

There are two things happening here:

1. de becomes d’ before a vowel sound

   • de envoyer ❌
   • d’envoyer ✅

2. le becomes l’ before a vowel sound

   • le envoyer ❌
   • l’envoyer ✅

This is called elision. French often drops the vowel of small words before another vowel to make pronunciation smoother.

So:

• de + envoyer → d’envoyer
• le + envoyer → l’envoyer

In the full sentence, you see:

• avant de l’envoyer

Yes, absolutely.

Both are correct:

• Je vais refaire le résumé avant d’envoyer le résumé.
• Je vais refaire le résumé avant de l’envoyer.

But the second one is much more natural, because French prefers not to repeat the same noun unnecessarily.

So:

• avant d’envoyer le résumé = grammatically correct
• avant de l’envoyer = more natural because it avoids repetition

It has three main parts:

1. Je vais refaire le résumé

   • Je = I
   • vais = am going
   • refaire = to redo
   • le résumé = the summary

2. avant de

   • means before
   • followed by an infinitive when the subject stays the same

3. l’envoyer

   • l’ = it
   • envoyer = to send

So the structure is:

subject + aller (present) + infinitive + avant de + pronoun + infinitive

That pattern is very common in French.

Not exactly.

In French, un résumé usually means:

• a summary
• a brief outline of something

What English often calls a résumé for a job application is usually:

• un CV in French

So in this sentence, le résumé means the summary, not a job résumé. The accents are normal French spelling.