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Il oublie ses clés toutes les semaines.

Il oublie ses clés toutes les semaines.
He forgets his keys every week.
From Lesson 76:The indefinite adjective (tout, tous)·French

Questions & Answers about Il oublie ses clés toutes les semaines.

Why is it toutes instead of tout?
The word for "all" or "every" changes to match the gender and number of the noun it describes. Because semaines (weeks) is a feminine plural noun, you must use the feminine plural form, toutes.
Why does the French sentence literally say "all the weeks" instead of "every week"?
In French, the most common way to say "every" with a recurring time period is to use tout le, tous les, or toutes les plus the noun. So "every week" becomes "all the weeks" (toutes les semaines), just like "every day" becomes "all the days" (tous les jours).
Why is it ses clés instead of son clés?
In French, possessive words match the thing being owned, not the owner. Because he is forgetting multiple keys (clés is plural), you must use the plural possessive ses. It doesn't matter that it's just one guy doing the forgetting!
I sometimes see "keys" spelled as clefs. Why is it spelled clés here?
Both clés and clefs are correct, mean exactly the same thing, and are pronounced exactly the same way (they both sound like "clay"). Clés is just the modern spelling, but you will still see clefs quite often in France.

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