indirect object

English

Noun

indirect object (plural indirect objects)

Examples
He gave the bank the money. He recommended me a good lawyer.

1. (grammar) A grammatical role of a ditransitive verb that manifests a secondary or passive participant in an action, often a recipient or goal.
2. (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.

Coordinate terms

• direct object
• prepositional object

Translations

grammatical term

• Azerbaijani: vasitəli tamamlıq
• Breton: renadenn dieeun f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 間接賓語 / 间接宾语 (zh) (jiànjiē bīnyǔ)

• 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: indirektes Objekt (de) n; Dativobjekt (de)
• Hungarian: részeshatározó (hu), részestárgy, indirekt tárgy, közvetett tárgy
• Icelandic: óbeint andlag n
• Japanese: 間接目的語 (ja) (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
• Romanian: obiect indirect (ro) n
• Russian: ко́свенное дополне́ние n (kósvennoje dopolnénije)
• Spanish: complemento indirecto m
• Swedish: dativobjekt (sv) n, indirekt objekt (sv) n
• Thai: กรรมรอง
• Welsh: gwrthrych anuniongyrchol m