The Objective

བྱ་བའི་ཡུལ་གང་ཞིག་ལ་བྱེད་པ་པོ་རང་གི་དོན་དུ་བྱེད་པ་ཉེ་བར་སྟོན་པའི་རྐྱེན། ལས་སུ་བྱ་བའི་སྒྲའི་གོ་དོན།
Understood meaning: A particle indicating an indirect object with respect to which the agent acts.

The Denyi particle is an instance of this དེ་ཉིད་ཀྱི་སྒྲ་ཡང་འདིའི་བྱེ་བྲག་ཅིག་ཡིན།

For example:

• “Tashi goes to the east.” Indirect object: the east.
  བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཤར་ཕྱོགས་སུ་འགྲོ། འགྲོ་བར་བྱ་བའི་ཡུལ། = ཤར་ཕྱོགས།
• “The seeds were planted in the field.” Indirect object: the field.
  ས་བོན་ཞིང་ལ་བཏབ། གདབ་པར་བྱ་བའི་ཡུལ། = ཞིང་།
• “Losang looked at the flower.” Indirect object: the flower.
  བློ་བཟང་གིས་མེ་ཏོག་ལ་བལྟས། བལྟ་བར་བྱ་བའི་ཡུལ། = མེ་ཏོག

Another way to think about it, is that this case marks the destination for verbs that have some directionality about them. As such, it acts as the complement to the Fifth Case (which marks an origin) by marking a destination. In the above examples:

• The east is the place that will be gone to.
• The field is the place that will be planted in.
• The flower is the “place” that will be looked at.

For more on the idea of directionality, see: directionality

This is reflected well in English, where we also mark these destinations (indirect objects) with “to”, “in”, “at”, and so forth.

See: Difference between direct and indirect objects

Summary

The Second Case marks the indirect object or destination for verbs that have some directionality about them.

• Despite the use of the word “objective”, it should not be confused for the Fourth Case marking a purpose.
• Despite the use of the word “destination”, it should not be confused for the Seventh Case Locative.

See: The Difference between the Second, Fourth, and Seventh Cases

Up a level: The Second Case – Objective