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Supines are used as verbal nouns.

A Latin supine ends in -um (former supine) or in -u (latter supine). In Latin, it is used much in the same way that English infinitives are used in the sentence "I call forth the Gladiators to fight" in Latin becomes " Gladiatores voco pugnatum" (The use of the infinitve in a construction like this "Gladiatores voco pugnare" is reserved for poetry.) Certain idiomatic expressions also include the supine.

In Slovene, a supine is used after verbs of movement, and is identical to the infinitive except in that it does not include the last letter (-i). See Slovene grammar.

See also: gerund