German articles – like adjectives and pronouns – have the same plural forms for all three genders.
Like its English equivalent (though unlike Spanish), it has no direct form for a plural; in this situation a range of alternatives such as einige (some; several) or manche (some) would be used.
This table gives endings for the definite article, equivalent to English the.
English equivalents could be, "The king, whose army Napoleon had defeated..." or "The Himalayas, the highest parts of which were as yet unsurveyed...".
Definite possessive [of the] (mixed) — i.e. the genitive of the demonstrative pronoun der: Interrogative possessive [of what] (mixed) – i.e. the genitive of the interrogative pronoun wer: German articles and pronouns in the genitive and dative cases directly indicate the actions of owning and giving without needing additional words (indeed, this is their function), which can make German sentences appear confusing to English-speaking learners.