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[rigid wagon]

Please be patient

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[quasi ginkgo]

I mean it can be both depending on the sentence, context matters.
In which sentence?

[mossy bridge]

As @quasi ginkgo , it depends on the context, but since you've asked why "du café", I'm pretty sure you saw it in a sentence similar to "Je bois du café". In that case, it's because for most verbs, when you use/drink/eat a generic amount of something (I drink coffee) you use the partitive articles, that is, the contraction of de+article. Since it's masculine, (le café), de+le=du, you have "Je bois du café". However, there are various adverbs which just take "de" without the article, such as "pas" or "beaucoup". "Je ne bois pas de café", "Je bois beaucoup de café"