Gegenstand.
object, item, thing, article
Meaning & usage
object, item, thing, article
subject, topic
in the technical language of civil law statutes, either a corporeal object or a subjective right
more broadly, since law of obligations lacks a numerus clausus, an object of agreement, that which is the deal
object of a sentence
Where this word comes from
gegen- + Stand. Calque of Latin obiectum; whereas subiectum has been calqued with Unterstand but this is now only used, at best, by philosophers.
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