(A programmer from Chicago) but another book uses: (she is from Russia) So why do they use the genitive for but not for ? is indeclinable nom. gen. dat. acc. inst. loc. Foreign proper names are declinable only if they end with a consonant or with -, or -, or -. nom. gen. dat. acc. inst. loc. Share Please correct my English ========================================== ( ) - Australia (and Oceania) - Australia - Vanuatu - Kiribati - Marshall Islands - Nauru - New Zealand - Palau - Papua New Guinea - Samoa - Solomon Islands - Tonga - Tuvalu - Federated States of Micronesia - Fiji - Asia - Abkhazia - Azerbaijan - Armenia - Afghanistan - Bangladesh - Bahrain - Brunei - Bhutan - East Timor - Vietnam - Georgia - Israel - India - Indonesia - Jordan - Iraq - Iran - Yemen - Kazakhstan - Cambodia - Qatar - Kyrgyzstan - China - Kuwait - Laos - Lebanon - Malaysia - Maldives - Mongolia - Myanmar - Nepal - UAE - Oman - Pakistan - Russia - Saudi Arabia - North Korea - Singapore - Syria - Tajikistan - Thailand - Taiwan - Turkmenistan - Turkey - Uzbekistan - Philippines - - Sri Lanka - South Korea - South Ossetia - Japan - Africa - Algeria - Angola - Benin - Botswana - Burkina Faso - Burundi - Gabon - Gambia - Ghana - Guinea - - Guinea-Bissau - Djibouti - Egypt - Zambia - Zimbabwe - - Cape Verde - Cameroon - Kenya - Comoros - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Republic of the Congo - - Cte d Ivoire - Lesotho - Liberia - Libya - Mauritius - Mauritania - Madagascar - Malawi - Mali - Morocco - Mozambique - Namibia - Niger - Nigeria - Rwanda - - Sao Tome and Principe - Swaziland - Seychelles - Senegal - Somalia - Sudan - - Sierra Leone - Tanzania - Togo - Tunisia - Uganda - Central African Republic - Chad - Equatorial Guinea - Eritrea - Ethiopia - - South Africa - Europe - Austria - Albania - Andorra - England - Belarus - Belgium - Bulgaria - Bosnia and Herzegovina - Vatican - Great Britain - Hungary - Germany - Greece - Denmark - Ireland - Iceland - Spain - Italy - Cyprus - Kosovo - Latvia - Lithuania - Liechtenstein - Luxembourg - Macedonia - Malta - Moldova - Monaco - Netherlands - Norway - Poland - Portugal - Russia - Romania - - San Marino - Serbia - Slovakia - Slovenia - Northern Cyprus - Northern Ireland - Turkey - Ukraine - Wales - Finland - France - Croatia - Montenegro - Czech Republic - Switzerland - Sweden - Scotland - Estonia - North America - Antigua and Barbuda - Bahamas - Barbados - Belize - Haiti - Guatemala - Honduras - Grenada - Dominica - Dominican Republic - Canada - - Costa Rica - Cuba - Mexico - Nicaragua - Panama - El Salvador - - Saint Lucia - - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - - Saint Kitts and Nevis () - United States of America (USA) - Trinidad and Tobago - Jamaica - South America - Argentina - Brazil - Bolivia - Venezuela - Guyana - Colombia - Paraguay - Peru - Suriname - Uruguay - French Guiana - Chile - Ecuador ===================================