Russian grammatical questions: Alaska and Hawaii

[Alina Israeli]

Tahiti is also indeclinable, with preposition "na": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ynTvdXVfzA 
  (start at the 5 min mark). Unlike Gavai it is singular, so there is  
no urge to associate the final "i" with plurality and create Na  
Gavajax à la Na Kurilax.


Oct 29, 2010, в 7:16 PM, John Dingley написал(а):
>
>
> By the way, isn't "Xel'sinki", more often than not, indeclinable
> in modern Russian? E.g. "Ona zhivet v Xel'sinki".
>
> John Dingley
>
>

Alina Israeli
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LFS, American University
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Washington DC 20016
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