objectverbsubject
Objectverbsubject (OVS) is a term used in linguistics to describe a language with a basic clause order in which the object precedes the verb, and the verb precedes the subject. In canonical form, the sequence is object–verb–subject. It is one of several possible basic word orders found across languages, and it is comparatively rare compared with more common orders such as SVO or SOV.
Because the order provides limited cues to semantic roles, many OVS languages rely on explicit case marking,
In practice, a typical transitive sentence in an OVS language places the object first, the verb second,
Because OVS is relatively rare and may interact with other syntactic phenomena, the term is mainly used