Quote Originally Posted by iCake View Post
You can safely use единственная вещь. As for the neutral gender when you omit вещь, it's because единственное becomes a noun of its own, there is no reference back at вещь there and since you mean something abstract with единственное it becomes neutral.
Thanks iCake! You are absolutely right. It becomes a noun but I didn't know that its independence immediately transforms it to neutral. For example ванная remains female because the подразумеваемое слово is комната.
Btw as I noticed I am celebrating 1,500 posts!
I became "Завсегдатай"!! I don't even know what this word means! Now I possess new advanced superpowers?
Omg! Still I didn't learn russian and I am keeping posting