If an electron is thought if more as a wave than a particle, how does it have a mass?

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What is mass? Mentally, do you associate the property of mass as belonging to something? As you delve deeper into the physics of the small, “real world” intuition starts to break down. What we think of as mass might arise from an interaction of disturbances in one field with another field.

Bottom line: calling it a wave or a particle does not necessarily associate it with a property of mass. Meaning, waves = no mass, particles = mass is not a true intuition.