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The indirect object is expressed by the dative case. It answers to the question to whom? Komu?

I give a book to the boy.—Dám knihu hochovi.

I give what? The book. The book is the direct object.

To whom do I give the book? To the boy, hochovi. The boy is the indirect object expressed in Bohemian by the dative case. The preposition k, to or towards, (ke or ku before word beginning with k, b, v, p) is used only to denote direction, when the verb implies motion. Jdu ke stolu. I go to (towards) the table.

The forms of the dative.

	Singular.	Plural.
Masculine animate	pánu, or pánovi,	pánům,
Masculine inanimate	stromu,	stromům,
Feminine	škole,	školám.