Der, die or das?
der Papa
masculine noun · dad · level A1
The plural
die Papas - in the plural, every German noun takes the article die.
Example
Der Papa liest die Zeitung.
Dad reads the newspaper.
Why der?
"Papa" doesn't follow any of the 35 gender rules -
it belongs to the words you learn together with their article, as one unit:
der Papa. That's exactly what the app's spaced repetition is for.
Words from the same topic (Family)
Practice it, don't just read it. In the Genau app you train der/die/das
across all 2,400 words, with the rule shown on every mistake - free, offline, no account.
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