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SHALL

often only the sign of the future sometimes of the imperative; but it conveys also the idea of (a) duty and may be rendered by debere. (b) Necessity oportet: necesse est: (c) Compulsion cogi; or the participle future passive; e.g. hodie ei abeundum est. (d) Command jubere: praecipere. (e) Desire entreaty jubere velle (e.g. quid me facere vis jubes? quid hic mihi faciendum est?). (f) Possibility by the subjunctive; e.g. si forte tibi occurrat; si quispiam dixerit. Vid: SHOULD.

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