indirect object

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indirect object

An object indirectly affected by the action of a verb, as me in Sing me a song and turtles in He feeds turtles lettuce.

indirect object

(Linguistics / Grammar) Grammar a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase indicating the recipient or beneficiary of the action of a verb and its direct object, as John in the sentence I bought John a newspaper Compare direct object

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indirect object - the object that is the recipient or beneficiary of the action of the verb

object - (grammar) a constituent that is acted upon; "the object of the verb"

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indirect object

n (Gram) → Dativobjekt nt

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To complicate things even further, indirect object pronouns are usually redundant in Spanish.

The acquisition of psychological-verb alternations in Spanish: two ... by Rubio, Fernando / Academic Exchange Quarterly

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