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Object

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Author(s): Shemesh, Rivka
An object is a complement of a verbal or an adjectival predicate (Sadka 1981:130–131). In Hebrew an object can take one of three grammatical forms: (1) noun phrase, e.g., מסרתי כתובת masarti ktovet ‘I gave an address’; (2) pronoun suffixed to a finite or infinitive form of the verb, e.g., מסרתיה mesartiha ‘I gave it’, למסרה lemosrah ‘to give it’; (3) prepositional phrase consisting of a preposition or the accusative marker את ʾet and a noun phrase, e.g., מסרתי את הכתובת לאדם זה masarti ʾet ha-ktovet le-ʾadam ze ‘I gave the address to this man’, or a pronominal suffix, e.g., מסרתי לו אותה masarti …