Der, die or das?
das Ehepaar
neuter noun · married couple · level A1
The plural
die Ehepaare - in the plural, every German noun takes the article die.
Example
Das Ehepaar wohnt nebenan.
The married couple lives next door.
Why das?
"Ehepaar" doesn't follow any of the 35 gender rules -
it belongs to the words you learn together with their article, as one unit:
das Ehepaar. 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
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