Word Meaning 目的語

もくてきご mokutekigo

目的語 is read as もくてきご (mokutekigo) and means object.

Meaning

English

  1. object

Reading

Kana

もくてきご

Romaji

mokutekigo

Stroke Sequence

3 Characters • 27 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N2 Jōyō Grade 4 Kanken 7級 Rank 33406 Priority F

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

目的言語

もくてきげんご

object language

目的補語

もくてきほご

object complement

目的格補語

もくてきかくほご

objective complement

同族目的語

どうぞくもくてきご

cognate object

間接目的語

かんせつもくてきご

indirect object

直接目的語

ちょくせつもくてきご

direct object

目標言語

もくひょうげんご

target language

目的

もくてき

purpose

目的地

もくてきち

destination (one is heading towards)

目的意識

もくてきいしき

sense of purpose

目的化

もくてきか

becoming the objective

Example Sentences

6

In English the verb precedes the object.

A complete intransitive verb takes neither complement nor object.

The following verbs only take the to-infinitive as their object.

Actually, there are many cases where 'have [object] done' is not causative.

The object is that which in Japanese would generally be indicated with "ni" or "o".

With verbs there are intransitive verbs that don't take an object, and transitive verbs that do take an object.