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For other uses, see Supine (disambiguation).
In
grammar, a
supine is a form of
verbal noun used in some languages.
In Latin
In
Latin there are two supines, I. and II. They are originally the
accusative and
dative or
ablative forms of
verbal noun in the
fourth declension, respectively. The first supine is often used as the fourth
principal part of Latin
verbs and ends in
-um. It has two uses. The first is with verbs of motion and indicates purpose. For example, "Gladiatores adfuerunt
pugnatum" is Latin for "The gladiators have come
to fight", and "Legati
gratulatum et
cubitum venerunt" is Latin for "The messengers came
to congratulate and
to sleep." The second usage is in the Future Passive Infinitive, for example "
amatum iri" means "to be about to be loved". It mostly appears in indirect statements, for example "credidit se
necatum iri", meaning "he thought that he was going to be killed".
The second supine can be used with adjectives but it's rarely used and only a small number of verbs traditionally take it. It is derived from the
dativus finalis which expresses purpose or the
ablativus respectivus which indicates in what respect. It is the same as the first supine minus the final
-m and with lengthened "u". "Mirabile dictū", for example, means "amazing to say", where
dictū is a supine form.
In other languages
Outside of Latin, a supine is a non-finite verb form whose use resembles that of the Latin supine.
The
English supine is the bare
infinitive (the verb's plain form) introduced by the particle
to; for this reason it's often called the
full infinitive or
to-infinitive.
The
Romanian supine generally corresponds to an English construction like
for doing; for example, "Această carte este
de citit" means "This book is
for reading."
The
Slovene supine is used after verbs of movement.
See Slovenian verbs. The supine was used in
Proto-Slavic but it was replaced in most
Slavic languages by the
infinitive in later periods. In
Czech, the contemporary infinitive
ending -t (formerly
-ti) originates from the supine.
In
Swedish the supine is used with an
auxiliary verb to produce some compound verb forms.
See Swedish grammar. This also applies to
Norwegian where the form
supine is called
perfektum.
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