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 Content preview:  On 25.07.2013 20:02, la .temlat. wrote: > I know I can say
    things like {mi ponse pa lo karce} but I can't say > {mi ponse pa lo bunre}.
    (bruna) Indeed, owning a brother *probably* isn't what you mean. (but owning
    a brown object is of course possible, e.g. a teddy bear) [...] 
 
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On 25.07.2013 20:02, la .temlat. wrote:
> I know I can say things like {mi ponse pa lo karce} but I can't say
> {mi ponse pa lo bunre}.

(bruna)

Indeed, owning a brother *probably* isn't what you mean. (but owning a 
brown object is of course possible, e.g. a teddy bear)

> I know I could say {mi se bruna pa lo prenu (po'o)},

You'd want to put the {po'o} after the number:

{pa po'o prenu}
"Only 1 person."

The {po'o} is mostly emphatic, because {pa} (as an outer quantifier) by 
itself already means "there exists exactly 1".

If you mean "only" as in "I feel lack" or as in "It's a small number 
that I am unhappy about", you could try: {so'u pa ui nai} - "few and one 
:( " or {pa be'u} - "one and I feel lack about the number".

> but could I say {mi pamei se bruna}?
> {mi ckini pa lo bruna}?

The most precise, shortest, unadorned way is:

      (1) mi se bruna pa da      (or: pa da mi bruna)
          "There exists exactly one X such that I brother X."
          "I have exactly one brother."

mu'o mi'e la selpa'i

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