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I'm currently reading a Japanese children's book, and a character says
「金色の葉っぱだ」 I'm assuming the 「っぱだ」 is like saying 「たくさん」 or 「いっぱい」, but I don't
actually know. Any help is appreciated!
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Noun followed by 「っぱだ」
葉{は}っぱ is a word. It means leaf!
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As snailplane says, for practical purposes, just think of 葉っぱ as a word
meaning 'leaf'. In colloquial speech 葉っぱ is probably more common than 葉.

I haven't been able to find decisive evidence, but I conjecture that the っぱs
occuring in (at least) the below words

> 葉っぱ  
>  原っぱ  
>  下っ端  
>  木端微塵{こっぱみじん}

is the same morpheme, meaning "something unimportant", "edge", "small piece"
etc. Maybe someone else can confirm this.
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