On 25.07.2013 20:02, la .temlat. wrote:(bruna)
I know I can say things like {mi ponse pa lo karce} but I can't say
{mi ponse pa lo bunre}.
Indeed, owning a brother *probably* isn't what you mean. (but owning a brown object is of course possible, e.g. a teddy bear)You'd want to put the {po'o} after the number:
I know I could say {mi se bruna pa lo prenu (po'o)},
{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".The most precise, shortest, unadorned way is:
but could I say {mi pamei se bruna}?
{mi ckini pa lo bruna}?
(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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