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[maiden musk]

Please be patient

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[bold kraken]

De is a preposition in "combien de nuit". It's always used between combien and a noun. Think of it as "What amount of nights"

You should provide the whole sentence you saw d'animaux in, but it's a combination of words that can easily occur in a large variety of sentences.

[knotty tiger]

For animaux its like

Beacoup d'animaux

Is the article necessary?

[barren wasp]

the d' there isn't an article

it's a preposition

and after things that talk about quantities (beaucoup de, peu de, un tas de, une tranche de) we don't include an article

[knotty tiger]

Ohhh! That's explain a lot i get it now... does it applies the same for "prés de" ?

[barren wasp]

près* de

and no