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der, die oder das Junge?

der Junge

It's der Junge. Junge is masculine, plural die Jungen.

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Plural
die Jungen
Meaning
boy
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Family & people

Example

  • Der Junge spielt Fußball.

    The boy plays football.

Why der?

Exception

-e die

Usually 85.6% of the 2,894 common nouns ending in -e take die.

Junge breaks this rule: it is der Junge, not die Junge.

Masculine -e nouns are mostly people and animals (der Junge, der Kollege, der Löwe). Learn der Name and der Käse as pairs.

Other exceptions der Glaube, das Ende, der Name, das Auge