"That animal is eating meat."

Translation: Tamto zwierzę je mięso.

[magdajagda]

Tamten zwierzak je mięso

[Gljonny]

Sounds way more familiar to me. Is both right?

[Jellei]

Zwierzak is a bit colloquial, and has these... affectionate connotations. We do not accept it.

[KornDog513]

Does making a noun diminutive change it's gender? Do nouns in the diminutive conjugate like the rest of them?

[Jellei]

Diminutive rather shouldn't change the gender, although that's possible, I guess. Especially if we treat words for baby animals as diminutives. Then you will have "słoń-słoniątko", "lew-lwiątko" and similar.

A noun is still a noun, so of course it will conjugate according to how it itself looks like. It doesn't matter if it has been derived from some other noun.

[Lena326295]

Where is the difference between tamto and tamta?

[Jellei]

The determiner has to match the gender of the noun it describes. "tamto" is used for neuter nouns, such as "zwierzę". "tamta" is used for feminine nouns, such as "kawa".

[ggwilde]

What about tamten?

[Jellei]

masculine.

Then you have "tamci" (masculine personal plural) and "tamte" (not masculine-personal plural).

[Nik659150]

Why is meat nit in the accusative ?

[Jellei]

It is.

But for neuter nouns, the Accusative form is identical to the Nominative one.

[OskarPetur2]

To zwierzę je mięso was accepted. Isnt that wrong

[Yola448704]

It is correct:

That animal is eating meat - To zwierzę/ Tamto zwierzę je mięso

[OH1996]

Cyrillic: Тамто зъверѧ е мѧсо