'If you dont like sweet potatoe, there are other vegetables". Surely these "other vegitables'' are a specific number of vegitables available for eating at that meal. Not the whole vegetable kingdom. So why not "des autres"?
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there are other vegitables
Des autres is always the combination of the preposition de and the definite article les. You can't say "il y a des autres légumes", because there is no reason for a preposition to be there.
Il y a d'autres légumes. -- There are other vegetables.
Il y a les autres légumes. -- There are the other vegetables. (Not sure when you'd actually say this.)
Compare with this example from the lesson:
Il a besoin des autres feuilles de papier. (He needs the other sheets of paper).
In this case the expression is "avoir besoin de", so we have de + les -> des.
Il y a d'autres légumes. -- There are other vegetables.
Il y a des autres légumes. -- There are the other vegetables.
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