I have the same question as Charles.  What is the reason "prochaines" is places before the noun?  Thanks for your help.

Merci Cécile, C'était une phrase dans une traduction Kwiziq le semaine dernière. Je comprends mieux maintenant. Bonne journée, Paul.

It has to do with the concept called the 'immediate/concrete future and the  practice in dialog form of using  Le Present. I am not sure if it apples in formal writing.

KWIZ  has a lesson on it called Using Le Présent for immediate/near future actions.

Couple examples from that lesson are : Demain, il arrive à dix heures./Tomorrow, he's arriving at ten o'clock. and Je prends mon train dans une heure./I'm taking my train in an hour.

I added the term concrete for my clarity... but you can see the concept that while the action of the verb is technically in the future and is not 'accomplished'... the sense is that it is a 'done deal' and does not really hang on a 'future plan' of action.

One nice example I have seen is where in English we say, "We'll see each other tomorrow" , the French  translation is " on  se voit demain".. the present tense and generic 'on'.

I don't think it overrides the 'technical' use of the future (you weren't be marked wrong I don't think) but it makes you look, to use a galling but not Gallic term, "as if you didn't just hit town".

Thanks Jameson, that was a good explanation.

Hi Patrick,

this is a question about nuance which, of course, benefits from the input of a native speaker. That said, I would say that they are about as similar to each other as "last year" and "the year past".

-- Chris (not a native speaker).

Hi Nabeel,

this is a very good question and got me thinking.

prochain before the noun somehow implies the next within a sequence.
prochain after the noun implies the temporally next occurrence.

Here is an example. Suppose you're sitting in a meeting which convenes every other Monday (i.e., every two weeks). Then someone says either of the two sentences below:

On en parlera plus prochain lundi. -- This refers to the next Monday on which the meeting will reconvene, i.e., Monday in two weeks.

On en parlera plus lundi prochain. -- In this case the speaker refers to the Monday immediately following the meeting.

I hope that makes sense. Certainly, this topic would benefit from the input of a native speaker.

-- Chris (not a native speaker).