Sincere thanks to both Pierre and Ian. I was wondering what would be wrong with
"da po'o gerku"? A I understand it, "da" is the existentetial x, so if "la
faidos po'o gerku" mean "Fido is the only dog" shouldn't "da po'o gerku" mean
"there exists an x such that x is the only dog?
thanks again,
J.
>
> 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.
>
