"Our cats eat eggs."
Translation:Наши кошки едят яйца.
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Accidentally typed "кощки" instead of "кошки" and got it wrong instead of pointing out the typo. Pretty bogus.
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I thought, since яйца has a -а ending, it should be changed to -у in accusative cases. But since it stayed яйца in this sentence, I guess the "always -а→-у" rule only applies to feminine singular nouns with -а ending. So not мужчину because it's masculine(no, it does! sorry) and not врему because it's neuter.
In this case, the declension depends on the animateness of the original noun яйцо. If it were animate, we would have used the genitive plural form (Wiktionary says it's яиц), but since it's inanimate (eggs cannot move or speak) we use the already-known nominative plural яйца. Am I correct?
By the way I learned a proverb, яйца курицу не учат. With the help from dictionary about учить, I can't believe I can actually read new sentences!
As you know, the word for egg is яицо (neuter). The plural of this is яица. Yes, only feminine singular words change to у at the end in accusative.
Мужчина, however, indeed does change to мужчину in the accusative case. Even though it means ‘man’ the endings act like a feminine word.
The word for ‘time’ is время, which is neuter. It changes to времени in several cases, never времю or врему.
The proverb means, “eggs don’t teach the chicken”. This means, the inexperienced shouldn’t give advice to the experienced.