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 Definitions of shall  [ʃæl; unstressed ʃəl]  

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Definition of 'shall' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (pres.) shall
plan to or intend to:
I shall go later.

2.  shall
will have to or is determined to:
You shall do it. He shall do it.

3.  shall
(in laws, directives, etc.) must; is or are obliged to:
Council meetings shall be public.

4.  shall
(used interrogatively):
Shall we go?

Etymology:  (bef. 900; ME shal, OE sceal; c. OS skal, OHG scal, ON skal; cf. D zal, G soll)

Definition of 'shall' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1.  shall
used to offer, suggest, or ask politely
Shall I make some drinks?

2.  shall
used with "I" and "we" to talk about the future
We shall be away that week.

3.  shall
used to give legal instructions
The defendant shall not be required to pay any damages.


Definition of 'shall' Webster Dictionary 

1.  shall
to owe; to be under obligation for

2.  shall
to be obliged; must

3.  shall
as an auxiliary, shall indicates a duty or necessity whose obligation is derived from the person speaking; as, you shall go; he shall go; that is, I order or promise your going. It thus ordinarily expresses, in the second and third persons, a command, a threat, or a promise. If the auxillary be emphasized, the command is made more imperative, the promise or that more positive and sure. It is also employed in the language of prophecy; as, "the day shall come when . . . , " since a promise or threat and an authoritative prophecy nearly coincide in significance. In shall with the first person, the necessity of the action is sometimes implied as residing elsewhere than in the speaker; as, I shall suffer; we shall see; and there is always a less distinct and positive assertion of his volition than is indicated by will. "I shall go" implies nearly a simple futurity; more exactly, a foretelling or an expectation of my going, in which, naturally enough, a certain degree of plan or intention may be included; emphasize the shall, and the event is described as certain to occur, and the expression approximates in meaning to our emphatic "I will go." In a question, the relation of speaker and source of obligation is of course transferred to the person addressed; as, "Shall you go?" (answer, "I shall go"); "Shall he go?" i. e., "Do you require or promise his going?" (answer, "He shall go".) The same relation is transferred to either second or third person in such phrases as "You say, or think, you shall go;" "He says, or thinks, he shall go." After a conditional conjunction (as if, whether) shall is used in all persons to express futurity simply; as, if I, you, or he shall say they are right. Should is everywhere used in the same connection and the same senses as shall, as its imperfect. It also expresses duty or moral obligation; as, he should do it whether he will or not. In the early English, and hence in our English Bible, shall is the auxiliary mainly used, in all the persons, to express simple futurity. (Cf. Will, v. t.) Shall may be used elliptically; thus, with an adverb or other word expressive of motion go may be omitted


Translation of 'shall' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: used to form future tenses of other verbs when the subject is I or we
We shall be leaving tomorrow; I shall have arrived by this time tomorrow.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: sal Arabic flag Arabic: سَوف: تُسْتَعْمَل مع ضَمي Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: ще (спомагателен глагол)
Brazilian flag Brazilian: dever Czech flag Czech: (budoucí čas), budu, bude German flag German: ich werde, wir werden
Danish flag Danish: skal; vil Greek flag Greek: θα (για το σχηματισμό του Spanish flag Spanish: (se usa para formar el fu
Estonian flag Estonian: (tulevikku väljendav abiv Farsi flag Farsi: بيان زمان آينده؛خواهي French flag French: -rai, -rons
Hebrew flag Hebrew: צוּרַת עָתִיד Hindi flag Hindi: गा, गे, गी Croatian flag Croatian: ću, ćemo (futur)
Indonesian flag Indonesian: akan Icelandic flag Icelandic: skal,ætlar Italian flag Italian: (ausiliare per la formazi
Japanese flag Japanese: ~でしょう Korean flag Korean: (주어가 1인칭 경우 단순미래, ~) 할 것이 Latvian flag Latvian: (palīgdarbības vārds nāko
Malay flag Malay: akan Dutch flag Dutch: zullen Norwegian flag Norwegian: skal, komme tilå
Persian flag Persian: بيان زمان آينده؛خواهي Pashto flag Pashto: دفعل مرستيال: به (لكه زه Portuguese flag Portuguese: vou/vamos
Romanian flag Romanian: voi, vom Russian flag Russian: вспомогательный глагол, с Slovak flag Slovak: (budúci čas)
Serbian flag Serbian: ću Swedish flag Swedish: skall, kommer att, el. oö Thai flag Thai: จะ(คำกริยาช่วยแสดงถึงอนาค
Turkish flag Turkish: (Not: geleck zamandaöznen Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: (用於第一人稱)將要 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: вживається для утворення
Urdu flag Urdu: فعل کے ساتھ مستقبل کے معن Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: chỉ các dự đoán trong tươ Chinese flag Chinese: (用于第一人称)将要

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