Related to this lesson in a way: "d'objets"?

Question

Hello, i am struggling to understand this construction: ces drôles de choses; ces drôles d'objets. Can anyone help with the grammar reasoning behind it or the link to a lesson on this?
Merci.

Accepted Answer

Salut Okpeta,
"ces drôles de choses; ces drôles d'objects."   In the sense: These strangest of preposition (de / d') -----
"These strange (bizarre) things; these strange (bizarre) objects."
Where "ces" is a demonstrative plural adjective relating to the plural nouns
https://www.wordreference.com/fren/ces
Hope that this helps.
Bonne continuation
Jim

Answer

It’s a bit dated, but in UK English one might say "a funny sort/kind of + noun" to express the same idea. Doesn’t really work for plurals, though.