"A bird is eating a mouse."
Translation:Ptak je mysz.
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Yes many birds do, not only hawks and eagles, but even our chicken sometimes like mice ;-)
"je jedzą" :) "ich" is for 'masculine personal plural', so it implies... well, eating people.
I thought the noun is supposed to change if it's in accusative unless it's an inanimate masculine noun?
Well, yes. So I guess this is an exception... it is an unusual noun after all, looking masculine but being feminine.
This is the reason why is not mysza? Because I was expecting it would end up with -a being animated and masculine.. So in reality it is feminine, did I get the concept?
"mysza" is an existing word, but it is considered colloquial, so we do not teach it nor accept it.
Yes, "mysz" is feminine even if it doesn't end with -a.
„Myszka” is a diminutive form of „mysz”. The standard form is „mysz”, which in accusative is also „mysz”.
If you wanted to note, that the mouse is smaller than most mice, or that it's a cartoon or a fairytale mouse – sure, you can.
Well, there is a word "jej" in Polish, and it's very common actually, but it has a completely different meaning. "Jem" and "je" are similar, but the former is for the first person, while the latter is for the third.
The anwer is incorrect, why? because in Polish, the word Ptak je mysz means "The bird eats the mouse" Ptak je mysz means, A bird is eating the mouse, They both sound the same topic but different writing, except the word "Je" because it means "Them" in Polish.
"Je" can mean either "eats" or "them", depending on the context. And for most verbs Polish doesn't make a difference between simple and continuous forms, so "ptak je mysz" could be translated as both "A bird eats a mouse" and "A bird is eating a mouse".
I'm sorry if I misinterpreted your comment, it's kind of hard to read.