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Re:In Defense of Latin by tsimionescu on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @01:55AM (#21581670)
You can do it with surnames as well:

Peter does give his love to Jana.

To Jana does Peter give his love.

Give his love to Jana, does Peter.

It sounds pretty unnatural, but it is understandable I believe. Not sure if the Czech versions would sound natural to a Czech or not.

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Re:In Defense of Latin by schoen on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @02:33AM (#21581834)
You've gotten a benefit from having an indirect object expressed with a preposition, but presumably a lot of verbs don't take an indirect object and don't have a synonym that can.
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