English modal verbs having not always modal verbs equivalents in Ukrainian

Apart from the aforementioned there are four more modal verbs in English, which practically lack direct lexical equivalents in Ukrain­ian. These modal verbs are: shall, will, would and partly should, the latter being only historically the past form of shall, which, like the modal verb will and would, may sometimes have implicit meanings but lacking explicit lexical equivalents in Ukrainian. This is partly ex­plained by the complicated nature of shall, will, would and should, which mostly combine their modal meanings with that of the auxiliary one, pertained to some of these verbs.

A. Shall in its modal meaning is most of all used with the sec­ond and third persons plural and sometimes (though mostly in inter­rogative sentences) with the first person singular and plural. Depending on the intention of the speaker, the modal verb shall may express in combination with the notional infinitive the following main meanings:

1. Will or intention which can be conveyed in Ukrainian either with the help of the verb хотіти or through the logical stress on the verb that implicitly expresses this meaning plus the corresponding intonation (prosodic means) of the sentence. Cf.:

«Shall Itell you how I felt as а «Розповісти вам, як я,

mate of my high school stu- дорослий, почувався учнем в
dents?» (С. Schimmels) одному з коледжів?»

The principal clause shall I tell 'in this sentence has the implicit

contextual meaning corresponding to the Ukrainian «Хочете/ бажаєте, щоб я розповів вам...?»