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Indirect object - Meewerkend voorwerp
A sentence normally contains a subject and a verb, and often also contains a direct object.
However, in some sentences you might find a a third 'actor'. Look at the examples below:
| (1) Sara geeft een boek. |
Sara gives a book. |
| (2) Sara geeft Kenny een boek. |
Sara gives Kenny a book. |
In the first sentence, we have Sara as subject, geeft as the verb, and een boek as the direct object. In the second sentence, the recipient of the action, namely Kenny, has appeared.
This recipient is referred to as the indirect object. You can find the indirect object by asking the question: ‘To whom……?' In the case of the example, you can ask the question ‘To whom does Sara give the book?'. The answer is the indirect object of the subject's action, namely ‘Kenny'. An indirect object can also be a noun group rather than a single noun:
- Ik stuur alle mensen in de faculteit een e-mail.
- I send all people in the faculty an e-mail.
Personal pronouns also have indirect object forms, for example haar in the sentence below:
| Kenny geeft Sara een pannenkoek. |
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Kenny geeft haar een pannenkoek. |
| Kenny gives Sara a pancake. |
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Kenny gives her a pancake. |
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