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The word "only" in Esperanto

by rajatagrawal21, February 26, 2016

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bdlingle (User's profile) February 28, 2016, 7:47:26 PM

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 (User's profile) February 29, 2016, 2:05:01 PM

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 (User's profile) March 1, 2016, 4:41:34 PM

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 (User's profile) March 1, 2016, 8:09:56 PM

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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