indirect object

indirect object

See also: indirect-object

English

Noun

indirect object (plural indirect objects)

Examples
He gave the bank the money.

1. (grammar) A grammatical role of a ditransitive verb that usually manifests as a recipient or goal.

Coordinate terms

• direct object
• prepositional object

Translations

grammatical term

Danish: hensynsled n Dutch: meewerkend voorwerp (nl) n Finnish: epäsuora objekti French: complément d'objet indirect (fr) m, COI (fr) m, objet indirect (fr), complément d'objet second (fr) Galician: obxecto indirecto m Georgian: ირიბი ობიექტი (iribi obiekṭi) German: Dativobjekt (de) n, indirektes Objekt (de) n Hungarian: részeshatározó (hu), részestárgy, indirekt tárgy, közvetett tárgy Icelandic: óbeint andlag n

Japanese: 間接目的語 (かくせつもくてきご, kansetsu mokutekigo) Latin: res obliqua f Maltese: oġġett indirett m Norman: objet îndirect m Polish: dopełnienie dalsze n Portuguese: objeto indireto (pt) m Russian: ко́свенное дополне́ние n (kósvennoje dopolnénije) Spanish: complemento indirecto m Thai: กรรมรอง