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I'm working my way through the core 2000, and came across this:

> [明日]{あす}、6[時]{じ}に[起]{お}こしてください。

I immediately thought, "Please wake up at 6am tomorrow." But the translation
in the deck instead says, "Please wake **me** up tomorrow at six o'clock."

How would I know who the indirect object (the person being woken up) is?
Shouldn't "wake me up" be preceded by [私]{わたし}に or similar?
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grammar imperatives
How do I determine the indirect object of a command?
For one, you are confusing transitive (起こす) and intransitive (起きる) verbs. Your
"immediate thought" would be

> Please wake up at 6am tomorrow.  
>  明日、6時に **起きて** ください。

Secondly, you should keep in mind that the direct object (here, of the
transitive verb 起こす) may be omitted, whence

> 明日、6時に起こしてください。  
>  Please wake [someone] up at 6am tomorrow.

where [someone] = me is implied.
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