Rule 74: The Accusative Supine

The supine is a fourth declension verbal noun that is almost entirely unique to Latin. We commonly see it as the fourth principal part of a verb, and it is found in only two cases, the accusative and ablative. This video discusses the accusative supine, also known as the supine in -um, which is found after verbs of motion to express purpose.

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This is a rule that just fell through the cracks in my education. I remember lazily calling Caesar's use of "rogatum" a participle describing "legatos" despite the fact that both the voice and the number didn't jive.

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Given how often we see it, that’s okay!

[@IkkezzUsedEmber]

So this is kind of like "at an action"? as in, I am going towards the city (city would be acc in Latin) and this use of the supine would be like: I am going towards the action of hunting or "I am making preparatory actions to do this other verb (which is the supine)"

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[@stuartjohnson9019]

Great video. I would like to ask, why is the future passive infinitive using the passive form of īre, while the other usages on the video used the active forms?

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Without any research, I'd suggest that the passive form of īre (īrī) connects in with the passive meaning. The active īre + supine has a future active sense, "to be going to...", so the passive form would logically have a future passive sense. Sometimes Latin syntax works by taking something that makes sense and applying a basic transformation that in and of itself makes sense, even if the newly transformed word/phrase doesn't make sense to us in English in the same way that the original phrase did.

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@@latintutorial That makes sense, thank you.

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Came across this recently in llpsi!

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