lenfantdumondebellame

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[balmy rover]

Also

Why did they use il s'agit de la réforme agaire

Is the reform specific too?

Would it be il s'agit de réforme (if there is no adjective)

Would it be il s'agit de bonne réforme?

Or il s'agit de la bonne réforme

And nous voulons profiter des accords.

Or profiter d'accords

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What’s your source for the first one, the « des nouveaux accords » ?

Both examples could be talking about specific/non-specific stuff, depends on the context.

[high flare]

So the rule here is that when the partitive article (du/de la/de l’/des) encounters the preposition de, the partitive disappears. So you can have an unspecific thing :
« Il s’agit de réformes (de + des réformes) »
and a specific thing :
« Il s’agit des réformes dont on parlait (de + les réformes) »

so I can see something like « Nous voulons profiter d’accords (accords in general) » and « Nous voulons profiter des accords qui viennent d’être publiés (specifically the recently released accords) »

[balmy rover]

Lawless french

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So it tracks then

It’s talking about a specific thing

[balmy rover]

Can il s'agit de bonne réforme exist

[high flare]

I believe so

good reform in general

[balmy rover]

I am kind of confused in articles and prepositions

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In what way?

[balmy rover]

I dont know when to use certain articles.
I dont know when we use 'des' and 'les'. Sometimes the translation is not exactly literal so i get confused