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Votre bureau est loin des entrées principales.

Votre bureau est loin des entrées principales.
Your office is far from the main entrances.
From Lesson 92:Complex prepositions of location (près de, à côté de)·French

Questions & Answers about Votre bureau est loin des entrées principales.

Why does the sentence use des instead of just de after loin?
The lesson's phrase is loin de (far from). However, because "the entrances" is plural (les entrées), the de and the les must combine to form the contraction des. So, loin des means "far from the" (plural).
Can bureau also mean "desk"?
Yes! The word bureau can mean either the piece of furniture ("desk") or the room itself ("office"). Context usually makes it clear: here, talking about being far from the main entrances implies we are talking about an office.
Why is principales placed after entrées, and why does it end in -es?
Unlike in English, most French adjectives go after the noun they describe. Because entrées is feminine and plural, the adjective has to match it. The base word principal gets an -e for feminine and an -s for plural, becoming principales.
Could I use Ton instead of Votre for "Your" here?
Yes, if you are talking to a friend or close colleague, you would use the informal "your" and say Ton bureau. Votre is used here because the speaker is either addressing multiple people or speaking formally to one person (like a client or a manager).

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