You're conflating two meanings of the English word "once": "happening one time" and "at some time in the past". (The two meanings are probably related etymologically, but they're distinct now.)

{wa'logh loDnI' maH} would mean "We are brothers one time; there is one occurrence of us being brothers".

You want something that suggests the past more explicitly like:

{'op ben loDnI' maH} "Some years ago, we were brothers."

{'op ret loDnI' maH} "Some unspecified amount of time ago, we were brothers." ({'op ret} might be controversial.)

{loDnI' maHpu'} "We have been brothers; we have completed being brothers."

{loDnI' maH rIntaH} "We are finished being brothers."

On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 10:51 AM, mayqel qunenoS <mihkoun@gmail.com> wrote:

Is it possible to use {wa'logh} as a timestamp, in the following way ?:

{wa'logh, loDnI' maH}
Once, we were brothers.

qunnoq

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