Hi Helen,

The adjective prochain can be placed either before or after the noun.

Before the noun, the meaning is "the following" as in a sequence.

After the noun, "next" as in next week.

Now,  the cours or lessons/classes are in a sequence of those events, so this is why "prochain" is appearing before the noun (cours etc).

Hope this helps,

Bonne continuation

Jim

No tutor ever explained this before!  Thanks.

I was looking for a lesson on kwiziq on this topic but I couldn't find one. So here's on offsite link that explains the difference of prochain going before or after the noun: https://french.stackexchange.com/questions/2817/word-order-with-prochaine-before-or-after-noun-rules

On the other hand, I did find a lesson on the very same issue but with dernier: Prochain/Dernier = Next/Last + [durations] in French