Re: [lojban-beginners] Only one true dog

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Cebalo Jason
<jason_andrew_cebalo@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> coi rodo.
>
> I was wondering how you can say that there is only one of something.

   pa da broda
   "Exactly one thing is a broda."

> For example, if I want to say that there is only one dog that really exists,

That's a bit different. It could be something like:

   pa gerku cu ca'a zasti
   "One dog actually exists."

But if you want to say that there's only one dog, then:

   pa da gerku
   "There is exactly one thing that is a dog."

> 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.

To say that Fido is the only dog, you can say:

  la fidos cu selte'i lo ka gerku
  "Fido is the only thing with the property of being a dog."

Or you could say:

   la fidos po'o cu gerku
   "Only Fido is a dog."

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