"I have that tea."
Translation:Ja mam tamtą herbatę.
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I had this question as well. The declensions of ten and tamten are so similar that the first time I learned them I though they were exactly the same. However, there's a difference, the accusative feminine. It is tĘ for this, but tamtĄ for that. Otherwise it would be too boring, I guess.
Herbata is tea in the nominative case(the subject of the sentence). Herbatę is in the accusative case(The direct object, the thing being acted upon) of the sentence. The subject is "I" and the direct object is "tea", hence the change.
Just started to learn. Kinda difficult to understand difference between "tamta" and "tamtą" at this stage.
"tamta" (tamta herbata) is Nominative, "tamtą" (tamtą herbatę) is Accusative.
Nominative is used mostly for the subject of the sentence (Tamta herbata jest smaczna), Accusative is used for the direct object of the sentence (as here).
I'll let myself assume (from your nickname) that you understand Russian, so that would be "Тот чай - вкусный" vs "Я имею тот чай", Wait, that's not the best example as it looks identically here... OK, "Та вода - вкусная" vs "Я имею ту воду". And yeah, "У меня та вода" would be more natural but wouldn't show anything ;)
I had tę accepted as correct, but the answer here is tamta. Are they both correct? If so, why?
This = Ta
That = Ta / Tamta
https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/26090156
Visualisation:
Near<--------------------->far
[---This---][-------That-------]
[---------Ta---------][-Tamta-]
------------[overlap]----------
Note that the accusative (which we need in this sentence) of ta is tę, whereas the accusative of tamta is tamtą.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Polish_pronouns#Demonstrative_pronouns:_ten,_tamten
Well, have you ever met a male tea? No? Exactly.
Every noun has a grammatical gender, which depends mostly on the ending. Sure, there's no logic in calling tea "feminine", but the word "herbata" ends with -a.
"tamto" is neuter, "tamtą" is feminine. Accusative feminine, as needed by "mieć" (to have).
Since it's now clear to me that tamte doesn't exist, and I'm left with "tamto"
Tamte does exist, but it's plural. We need singular here. To be more precise: Singular feminine accusative.
Take a look at this declension table:
"herbatą" is the Instrumental form. A transitive verb like "mieć" takes the Accusative case, which is "herbatę".
Potential usage of "herbatą": "szklanka z herbatą" (a glass with tea). I guess 'with some tea' because otherwise we'd say "szklanka herbaty/a glass of tea".