目もく的てき語ご

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Meanings

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object (grammar)

Linguistic term for the grammatical object of a verb. Used in grammar explanations and language study.

「彼かれは本ほんを読よむ」の「本ほん」が目もく的てき語ごです。
In 'He reads a book,' 'book' is the object.

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Kanji

目eye, class, look
的bull's eye, mark, target
語word, speech, language

Don't confuse with

述じゅつ語ごN2
目的語 is the object that a verb acts upon, whereas 述語 is the verb/adjective/noun-plus-copula that expresses the action or state itself.
主しゅ語ごN2
主語 marks who or what performs the action, whereas 目的語 marks the thing that receives the action, and learners often mix up which noun phrase plays which role.

Word family

Built from

目もく的てき+語ご

Etymology

Compound of 目的 (mokuteki, 'purpose, objective') and 語 (go, 'word, language'), likely a calque from Western grammatical terminology.