frontmatter 
title: Object
aliases: [object, objects]
tags: [term]
category: Sentence roles
summary: What an action is done to. The receiver of the action.

Object

The object is the person or thing the action is done to. In "the coyote eats the pinenut," the pinenut is the object.

OVP marks the object in two places that need to agree: the object noun takes an object suffix (-neika nearby / -noka far), and the verb carries a matching object prefix (ma-, u-, …). For example, nüü tüba-noka ma-düka-ti = "I am eating the pinenut."

See also Subject, Transitive Verb, and Object Prefixes.

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