"One of the jails in our city is more modern than the others."

Translation: Unu el la malliberejoj en nia urbo estas pli moderna ol la aliaj..

[bryanhuman]

Could "de" (or "da") work here? Those are all still sort of foggy for me

[mihxal]

No, only "el" could work here.

[deactivated user]

Why is that?

[mihxal]

When you mean an element of some set you should always use "el". One particular jail is an element of the jails set

[deactivated user]

That's very helpful, thanks!

[MarkTheStrange]

Richardson says karcero is an individual jail cell, while "a jail" in English usually refers to the whole building. So shouldn't that be either karceraro or karcerujo or something?

[OldaFesta]

There is a one more dot in the end of the sentence