Shall

v.aux. (3rd sing. present shall; archaic 2nd sing. present shalt; past should /Tod, Jed/) (foll. by infin. without to, or absoL; present and past only in use)1 (in the 1st person) expressing the future tense or (with shall stressed) emphatic intention (I shall return soon). 2 (in the 2nd and 3rd