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Bonjour,

Could you please explain why "de" was used instead of "des" in the example of this lesson:

Je devrai changer de vêtements.

Merci.

Thanks for your helpful and amazing website. I have a question, why would you use « langues de prestige » and not « langues de la prestige »? 

Helle team

Could I use c'est quand instead of c'est la que to mean "that is when" ?   Sincerely Una

Oh non ! pas ____ pain sec. ____ belles oranges, alors !

Confused again.. your examples all use the form “il est dix heures vingt-cinq”.. in response to “quelle heure est-il”, would c’est dix heures vingt-cinq be equally acceptable?

A bit confused.. just taken a test and this question..

Write "I am in front of the school." : "Je suis ________ l'école."

I used “en face de” which is marked as incorrect. Devant certainly works but why is en face de wrong? Linguee is happy with it!

Are both of these sentences correct?

il est parti il y a trois semaines (he left 3 weeks ago)

il est parti pendant trois semaines (he has been gone for 3 weeks)

In the lesson it states:

"When last time is followed by a clause (last time I saw you), you can only use la dernière fois, and never la fois dernière." 

but there is a question that asks "_______,  Henri est venu me voir." ("Last time, Henri came to see me") One would assume the answer would be "La dernière fois," but that was not listed as an option for multiple choice.

Instead, it says that the answer is "La fois dernière" (the other multiple choice answers are: Dernière fois/ Fois dernière/ Une dernière fois). Is this because there is a comma, so "Henri came to see me" does not count as a clause following "Last time,"?