[lojban-beginners] Re: Only one true dog

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

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.

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

Pierre
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