direct object

English

Noun

Examples
I see the car. (French) Je vois la voiture.

direct object (plural direct objects)

(grammar, in languages without cases) The noun or noun phrase that a verb is directly acting upon.
(grammar, in languages with case distinctions) Such an object when it is in the accusative case, but (generally) not when it is in another case.

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Translations

the noun a verb is directly acting upon

Arabic: مَفعول بِهِ
Azerbaijani: vasitəsiz tamamlıq
Breton: renadenn eeun f
Catalan: objecte directe m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 直接賓語／直接宾语 (zh) (zhíjiē bīnyǔ)
Danish: direkte objekt n, 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 andlag n
Italian: complemento diretto (it) m
Japanese: 直接目的語 (chokusetsu mokutekigo)
Korean: 직접목적어 (jikjeop mokjeogeo)
Latin: ^{(please verify)} res directa f
Maltese: oġġett dirett m
Norman: objet direct m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: direkte objekt n
Polish: dopełnienie bliższe n
Portuguese: objeto direto (pt) m, complemento direto m
Romanian: complement direct (ro) n, obiect direct (ro) n
Russian: прямо́е дополне́ние n (prjamóje dopolnénije)
Spanish: complemento directo m
Swedish: direkt objekt (sv) n, ackusativobjekt (sv) n
Tagalog: tuwirang layon
Thai: กรรมตรง
Welsh: gwrthrych uniongyrchol m

Further reading

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