# sollen
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈso.ʎən]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈso.ʎen]

### Verb

sollen
* third-person plural present indicative of sollar

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle Dutch sollen, from Middle French soller (“to play a ball game”), from Old French soule (“wooden or leather ball”), of unclear ultimate origin but perhaps a Germanic borrowing, from Proto-Germanic *kūlǭ (“bump”), compare German Keule (“bat”) and Dutch kogel (“sphere-shaped object”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɔlə(n)/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

sollen
* to throw back and forth (of a ball)
* to play, to mess
    We laten niet met ons sollen!We won't let anyone mess with us!

#### Conjugation
### References

* ↑ Per FEW, TLF.

## Galician
### Verb

sollen
* inflection of sollar:
** third-person plural present subjunctive
** third-person plural imperative

## German
### Etymology

From Middle High German scholn, schuln, from Old High German sculan, skulan, scolan, from Proto-West Germanic *skulan.
Cognate with English shall and should, Dutch zullen, Danish skulle, Swedish skall and skulle.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈzɔlən/, [zɔln̩] (Germany)
** Audio:(file)(Germany)
* IPA: /ˈsɔlɛn/, [sɔln̩] (Austria, Southern Germany, Switzerland)
** Audio:(file)(Austria)
* Hyphenation: sol‧len

### Verb

sollen (preterite-present, third-person singular present soll, past tense sollte, past participle gesollt, auxiliary haben)
* (auxiliary) should; to be obligated (to do something); ought; shall
    Ich soll das machen. ― I should do that.
    Ich sollte das nicht tun. ― I should not do it.
* (auxiliary) to be recommended (to do something); to be asked (to do something)
* (auxiliary) to be intended (to do something); to be meant (to be something)
* (auxiliary) to be said (to do something); reportedly; they say that; I hear that; so they say; rumor has it; supposedly.
    Es soll da viele Leute geben. ― They say that there are many people there.
* (auxiliary, in a subordinate clause in the simple past tense) would; indicates that the subordinate clause indicates something that would happen in the past but after the time frame of the main clause
* (auxiliary, in a subordinate clause in the subjunctive) should; indicates that the subordinate clause indicates a hypothetical and unlikely condition for the main clause

#### Usage notes

* Sollen expresses moral duty or the suggestion that something ought to be done. Müssen can express the necessity of doing something, but also the moral duty. Both verbs can express a duty imposed by someone else. In this case müssen is stronger than sollen, implying that the imposing person has some kind of power to make the other really do it.
* The following infinitive can be dropped if the meaning is clear from the situation. This is especially true with tun.
** Was soll ich heute? ― What should I do today?

#### Conjugation

$^1$Preferred; avoid the alternative in würde.

### Further reading

* “sollen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
* “sollen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
* “sollen” in Duden online
* “sollen” in OpenThesaurus.de

## Luxembourgish
### Etymology

From Central Franconian solle, from Middle High German scholen, from Old High German skulan, from Proto-West Germanic *skulan.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈzolən/

### Verb

sollen (third-person singular present soll, past participle sollen, auxiliary verb hunn)
* to ought to, shall, should

#### Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

## Spanish
### Verb

sollen
* inflection of sollar:
** third-person plural present subjunctive
** third-person plural imperative