"Your mouse is eating cheese."
Translation:Wasza mysz je ser.
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"mysz" is feminine (it looks masculine though - it's an exception), so the right forms are either "twoja" (2nd person singular) or "wasza" (2nd person plural).
"twoje" is neuter. Or 'not masculine-personal plural'.
Please provide a screenshot and/or a report, because it is definitely listed as an accepted answer. In fact, it's a part of the original sentence that was put in the database.
Is "mysz" a feminine word? I understand there are exceptions, but my understanding is that it would be "wasz mysz je ser"
A lot of nouns ending on soft (palatal(ized)) consonants¹ or vowel /i/ is feminine, eg: noc (night), rzecz (thing), sól (salt), bogini (goddess), cerkiew (gen.sg. cerkwi, Orthodox Church), dłoń (hand)
Virtually all ending on -ść are feminine: miłość (love), kość (bone), ość (fishbone), wysokość (height), maść (ointment, rub), etc.
But there is also a lot of masculine ones: łoś (moose), pajac (pejor. clown, puppet), kac (hangover), koń (horse), stróż (guard), etc.
You can find a pretty good list of those on English Wiktionary, by looking what links to Polish declension of feminine soft consonant nouns template.
¹ ie.: j, ś, sz, ź, ż, rz, c, ć, cz, dź, dz, ń, l (and k, g, m, p, b, f, w when they get additional i in endings, like in cerkiew, cerkwi)
In common speech, wouldn't "Wasza mysz je ser" be "Your mouse eats cheese" as apposed to is eating? I know this is all semantics but I just felt I had to ask.
Most Polish verbs work both for Present Simple and Present Continuous.
Actually, for "eats", there could be (but it is not obligatory) another verb used: "Wasza mysz jada ser" (from "jadać"). But "Wasza mysz je ser" can mean both "is eating" and "eats".
