Let's work on "Faire faire"

Hi everyone,

This message is aimed at upper intermediate students.

These Faire faire expressions are pretty common and it's good to know how to translate them.

I see 3 main different cases corresponding to the French sentences below:

• cette histoire drôle me fait rire
  
  
• j'ai fait laver la voiture la semaine dernière
  
  
• je lui ai fait peindre la porte du garage

Did I forget other cases?

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Changed from upper-intermediate to intermediate.

Hi everyone


Je n'avais en tête que 2 cas
I had her eaten by the crocodile (le sujet s'intéresse au résultat)
I made her eat the crocodile ( Le sujet provoque l'action )

Muriel,

My translation (is it an Americanism?) for my 3rd example
"je lui ai fait peindre la porte du garage"
I got him to paint the garage door.

AFAIK Americans use to get rather than to have.

• cette histoire drôle me fait rire / this joke makes me laugh (in that one, I don't use get)
  
• j'ai fait laver la voiture la semaine dernière / I got the car washed last week
  
• je lui ai fait peindre la porte du garage / I got him to paint the garage door

NB:
The use of "to have" is very different in Am English, far less frequent than in BE.