indirect object
Noun
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Noun
indirect object (plural indirect objects)
- (grammar) A grammatical role of a ditransitive verb that manifests a secondary or passive participant in an action, often a recipient or goal.
- (grammar, in languages with case distinctions also) The object of a monotransitive verb that it is not in the accusative case, especially when it is in the dative case.
- French: complément d'objet indirect, COI, objet indirect, complément d'objet second
- German: indirektes Objekt; Dativobjekt
- Portuguese: objeto indireto
- Russian: ко́свенное дополне́ние
- Spanish: complemento indirecto
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