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Some German modals take on a special meaning in certain contexts.
He claims to be wealthy. They say she's French. All six modals add the regular past tense marker - te to the stem of the infinitive. Sollen becomes sollte and wollen changes to wollte in the past. See more on our German Modal Verbs - Examples page.