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The word "only" in Esperanto

de rajatagrawal21, 26 de febrer de 2016

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bdlingle (Mostra el perfil) 28 de febrer de 2016 19.47.26

sergejm:Here is an example, there 'nur' and 'sola' meet together:
'La straton lumigis nur unu sola laterno'
(I don't know how precisely to translate it to English)
Couldn't it be: "Only one lone latern illuminated the street"?

Miland (Mostra el perfil) 29 de febrer de 2016 14.05.01

sergejm:Here is an example, there 'nur' and 'sola' meet together:
'La straton lumigis nur unu sola laterno'
(I don't know how precisely to translate it to English)
In that context sola means "by itself", "without a companion" or "alone".

ludomastro (Mostra el perfil) 1 de març de 2016 16.41.34

bdlingle:
sergejm:Here is an example, there 'nur' and 'sola' meet together:
'La straton lumigis nur unu sola laterno'
(I don't know how precisely to translate it to English)
Couldn't it be: "Only one lone latern illuminated the street"?
That works. I think I'd translate it as, "Only one solitary light lit the street." Thus, "only" is "nur" and "solitary" is "sola."

Mustelvulpo (Mostra el perfil) 1 de març de 2016 20.09.56

sergejm:Here is an example, there 'nur' and 'sola' meet together:
'La straton lumigis nur unu sola laterno'
(I don't know how precisely to translate it to English)
"The street was lighted by only one single lantern." Other words would also work in place of single such as lone, sole, isolated, solitary, lonely, etc.

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