direct object

English

Noun

Examples
I seethe car. (French)Je voisla voiture.

directobject(pluraldirect objects)

1. (grammar,in languages without cases)Thenounornoun phrasethat averbisdirectlyactingupon.
2. (grammar,in languages with case distinctions)Such an object when it is in theaccusativecase, but (generally) not when it is in another case.

Related terms

• subject
• indirect object

Translations

the noun a verb is directly acting upon

• Arabic:مَفعول بِهِ
• Azerbaijani:vasitəsiz tamamlıq
• Breton:renadenn eeunf
• Catalan:objecte directem
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Trực tiếp tân ngữ／Trực tiếp tân ngữ(zh)(zhíjiē bīnyǔ)

• Danish:direkte objektn,genstandsled(da)n
• Dutch:lijdend voorwerp(nl)n
• Finnish:suora objekti
• French:complément d’objet direct(fr)m,C.O.D.m
• Galician:obxecto directo(gl)m
• Georgian:პირდაპირი ობიექტი(ṗirdaṗiri obiekṭi)
• German:direktes Objekt(de)n,Akkusativobjekt(de)n
• Hungarian:közvetlen tárgy,direkt tárgy,elsődleges tárgy
• Icelandic:beint andlagn
• Italian:complemento diretto(it)m
• Japanese:Trực tiếp mục đích ngữ(ja)(chokusetsu mokutekigo)
• Korean:직접목적어(jikjeop mokjeogeo)
• Latin:^{(pleaseverify)}res directaf
• Maltese:oġġett direttm
• Norman:objet directm
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:direkte objektn

• Polish:dopełnienie bliższen
• Portuguese:objeto direto(pt)m,complemento diretom
• Romanian:complement direct(ro)n,obiect direct(ro)n
• Russian:прямо́е дополне́ниеn(prjamóje dopolnénije)
• Spanish:complemento directom
• Swedish:direkt objekt(sv)n,ackusativobjekt(sv)n
• Tagalog:tuwirang layon
• Thai:กรรมตรง
• Welsh:gwrthrych uniongyrcholm

Further reading

• direct objecton Wikipedia.Wikipedia