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The word "only" in Esperanto

de rajatagrawal21, 26 februarie 2016

Contribuții/Mesaje: 14

Limbă: English

bdlingle (Arată profil) 28 februarie 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 (Arată profil) 29 februarie 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 (Arată profil) 1 martie 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 (Arată profil) 1 martie 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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