Look at these sentences:
Note that when the adjective is placed BEFORE a plural noun, the partitive article des (some) becomes de (or d' in front of a vowel or mute h).
ATTENTION:
This rule doesn't apply when des is the contraction of "de + les" (= of/from/to the) :
BUT
Not sure which adjectives tend to go BEFORE the noun?
Then see Short and common adjectives that go BEFORE nouns (adjective position) and Other adjectives that go BEFORE nouns
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