Michallikes: Mieszamy herbatę. Why did herbata or herbaty become herbatę? What is the grammatical term for this? Was it herbata or herbaty before it became herbatę?
Herbata is the nominative case (singular).
Herbatę is the accusative case (singular).
Herbaty is the genitive case (singular).
Herbaty is also the nominative and accusative cases in plural.
Mieszamy herbatę is in this way because herbatę is the direct object of the sentence. I guess you know what direct object means. And the direct object always requires the accusative case.
Michallikes: why did kran become kranu? Is it locative or something else? this is part of the sentance, wody z kranu.
No, in this case it's not the locative case. After the preposition z (if you mean from something) you should use the genitive case. Genitive of kran in kranu.
(If you use the prep. z in the meaning "with someone/something" you should use the instrumental case.)
Oh, now I saw that gumishu already wrote some of this.
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