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German
Etymology
From Middle High German vliegen, Old High German fliogan, from Proto-West Germanic *fleugan, from Proto-Germanic *fleuganą, from Proto-Indo-European *plewk-. Compare Bavarian fliagn, Dutch vliegen, Low German flegen, English fly, Danish flyve.
Pronunciation
Verb
fliegen (class 2 strong, third-person singular present fliegt, past tense flog, past participle geflogen, past subjunctive flöge, auxiliary haben or sein)
- (intransitive) to fly; to travel by air
Ich fliege morgen in die Vereinigten Staaten.- I'm flying to the United States tomorrow.
2010, Der Spiegel, number 52/2010, page 16:Passagiere, die aus den USA nach Europa fliegen und dort umsteigen, sollen ab dem 1. April im Transitbereich nicht mehr kontrolliert werden.- It is planned that passengers who fly from the United States to Europe and change planes there are not checked in the transit area anymore after April 1.
- (intransitive, figuratively) to rush; to fly; to go quickly
- (transitive) to fly; to pilot
- (transitive) to transport by air
- (intransitive, colloquial) to get the axe, to get kicked out
... könnte von der Akademie fliegen.- ... could get kicked out of academy.
- (intransitive, colloquial) to fall; to fall down
Conjugation
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
- In early modern German, the 2nd and 3rd persons singular present and the imperative singular were alternatively du fleugst, er fleugt, fleug!
Derived terms
Further reading
- “fliegen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “fliegen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “fliegen” in Duden online
- “fliegen” in OpenThesaurus.de