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And for the ns. Чай [t͡ɕæj], there's an audio file here: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/чай#Russian
[i] audio: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_front_unrounded_vowel
[I] sound is between [i] and [e]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-close_front_unrounded_vowel
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Words after the preposition У are in genitive case, and мамы is the genitive feminine singular form of мама.
Negated words are also cast in genitive case, and чая is the genitive masculine singular form of чай.
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Masc | - | - | й | й | ь | ь |
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Case | Sing. | Pl. | Sing. | Pl. | Sing. | Pl. |
Nom. | - | ы | й | и | ь | и |
A-In. | - | ы | й | и | ь | и |
A-An. | a | ов | я | ев | я | ей |
Gen. | а | ов | я | ев | я | ей |
Dat. | у | ам | ю | ям | ю | ям |
Instr. | ом | ами | ем | ями | ем | ями |
Prep. | е | ах | е | ях | е | ях |
There is also a special form of genitive "tea" which is spelled: чаю instead of чая.
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These are tables I collected and collated because I found most tables to be too difficult to use, so I put them in a form I could understand and reference more easily.
For a whole bunch of tables, including the ones you ask for, look at: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/29038061
There are links there to other tables I gathered and published. Feel free to copy, use, distribute, etc. I suppose I have a copy-right in them, but don't assert that right for stuff that is distributed free to others, although I'd appreciated a cite to my Duo username.
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У literally means "by" or "near". The format of у...есть.... literally means "by/near [someone] is/exists [something]" which is translated quite freely (idiomatically) into "[someone] has [something].
у...нет... is the negative of that - "by/near [someone] (is) not [something], which is idiomatically translated into [someone] has no/does not have [something].
So here, у мамы нет чая literally means "by Mom is not tea" = "Mom has no tea".
2nd declension, m, (like m nouns ending in a consonant)
ns. Чай, gs. Ча́я, npl. Чаи́, gpl. Чаёв (https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/чай#Russian)
Note re gpl.: "After a soft consonant, ё is written when stressed; е when unstressed." (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_declension)