indirect object
noun1
Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences A grammatical role of a ditransitive verb that manifests a secondary or passive participant in an action, often a recipient or goal.
2
Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences The object of a monotransitive verb that it is not in the accusative case, especially when it is in the dative case.
In languages with case distinctions also
- Coordinate terms
- direct object, prepositional object