Participants, events and states
Roles of participants
Recipient and beneficiary
Who gets it, or who is it done for?
dative case
indirect object
beneficiary
recipient
Merkitys
Someone may receive a thing or a message, or benefit from what another person does. The receiver and the person who benefits can be different people, and an intended receiver need not actually get anything. Languages use word order, endings, or separate words to show these roles, sometimes without distinct markers for the two. How the recipient is marked looks at those forms; this block looks at who receives something or benefits.
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Ask who receives or is meant to receive something, and who the action is done for.