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I found the next sentence:

> 村を飛び出した

Because of 飛び出す being an intransitive verb, then that を is not working as a
direct object marker, right? Then can を work as a "substitute" for から in this
situation? In what other situations this happens?

> 「村を飛び出した」 ＝ 「村から飛び出した」？
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particles verbs particle-を transitivity particle-から
Can the particle を work as から in certain situations?
### Background

There is a fundamental difference between the English labels "transitive" /
"intransitive" and the Japanese labels 他動詞【たどうし】 / 自動詞【じどうし】. Please read the
thread about that here:

  * [Can verbs be both transitive and intransitive?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/44523/can-verbs-be-both-transitive-and-intransitive)

Key point: 自動詞【じどうし】 can sometimes have a syntactic (based on the grammatical
structure of the sentence) object.

### Your question

With regard to your question, _can を work as から in certain situations_ , the
best answer is "kind of". :)

The verb 飛【と】び出【だ】す is often glossed as something like "fly out from, fly away
from". In this translation, it is reasonable to expect から.

It can also mean "to leave (in the particular fashion of flying out)". An
analogy in English is that word "leave". We can say "we leave _from_ a place",
using a construction similar to how から works in Japanese. We can **also** say
"we leave _a place_ ", which is similar to how the を works in Japanese in your
sample sentence.

Note that there are other 自動詞【じどうし】 constructions that also take を, and where
that を doesn't work as から. Consider 道【みち】を[歩く]{あるく}. We can say something
similar in English as "I walk _along_ the road", and also as "I walk _the
road_ ", using "the road" as the direct object of "walk". There is a fuller
discussion of the use of を with 自動詞【じどうし】 in this thread:

  * [Do “direct object を” and “directional を” occupy the same slot?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/12799/do-direct-object-%E3%82%92-and-directional-%E3%82%92-occupy-the-same-slot)
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