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From: Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>
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Subject: Re: [lojban-beginners] Only one true dog
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:34:16 -0500
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On Monday 22 February 2010 20:39:58 Cebalo Jason wrote:
> coi rodo.
>
> I was wondering how you can say that there is only one of something. For
> example, if I want to say that there is only one dog that really exists, I
> thought it might be "da lo pa gerku" or if i want to say fido is the only
> true dog "la faido lo pa gerku" but then I realsied tha neither of those
> sentences have selbris so I wondered what I needed to add.

=46or "there is only one dog", you can say "ro pa da cu gerku". You can als=
o=20
use "po'o" as Ian said, "pa da po'o cu gerku". "pa po'o da cu gerku" means=
=20
that one is the only number of dogs that exist, which happens to mean the=20
same thing, but is a strange way of putting it, and in other=20
constructions "pa po'o" or the like may result in a weird meaning.

Pierre
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