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[modern egret]

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[main prawn]

They taught us "BAGS/BRAGS" (beauty, rank, age, goodness, size) in high school but like most things in French there seems to me to be a fair few exceptions

so to list one example from each category,

• un beau pays
• la première/deuxième/troisième fois
• le vieil homme
• un bon repas
• un grand établissement

one thing that I don't really get is that my brain is telling me it's "la dernière fois" (the last time) but you can say "la semaine prochaine", maybe that an exception? idk

or wait maybe prochaine just doesn't count as a rank adjective ever

maybe I've heard "la semaine dernière" before

okay no i think I've heard "la prochaine fois" as well

I think there are some adjectives (like prochain and dernier) that that change meaning slightly depending on whether they come before or after the noun

[timber axle]

yes! i don't have it memorized yet, but i remembered reading about it recently here

in short, "la semaine dernière" means "last week" as in the week before the current one. "la dernière semaine" means the last/final week of something, like a course, a semester, etc.

[heavy vessel]

ahha ok those all make sense