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[lojban] What is the most direct translation on English.



Hi,

I need to translate a sequence of lojban sentences:

.i le ctuca cu vecnu le fanva le cukta
The teacher sells to the translator the book .

.i te cukta te vecnu le ctuca le fanva
The book is sold by the teacher to the translator.

.i le fanfa se vecnu le ctuca le cukta
The translator ...

I have problem here. Is that possible to say that in English? I know that the first to sentences would be a correct translation for the third sentence. I also know that I could you "buy"... But I would like to have an English translation which is as close as possible to the original lojban-sentence (and which is still grammatically correct (but not unnecessarily nice)).

Thank you in advance.