fließen

== German == === Alternative forms === fliessen (Switzerland, Liechtenstein) === Etymology === From Middle High German vlieȥen, from Old High German flioȥan, from Proto-West Germanic *fleutan, from Proto-Germanic *fleutaną, akin to English fleet (verb), Old Saxon fliotan and Dutch vlieten. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfliːsn̩/, /ˈfliːsən/ === Verb === fließen (class 2 strong, third-person singular present fließt, past tense floss, past participle geflossen, past subjunctive flösse, auxiliary sein) (intransitive) to flow ==== Conjugation ==== Before 1996, the conjugated forms floss and flosst were spelled floß and floßt respectively. Since the 1996 German Spelling Reform, though, they are spelled with ss. ==== Derived terms ==== entfließen, umfließen, verfließen, zerfließen ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “fließen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache “fließen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “fließen” in Duden online “fließen” in OpenThesaurus.de