fliegen

== 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 === IPA(key): /ˈfliːɡn̩/, /ˈfliːɡŋ̩/ Rhymes: -iːɡn̩ === 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 [auxiliary sein] (intransitive, figuratively) to rush; to fly; to go quickly [auxiliary sein] (transitive) to fly; to pilot [auxiliary haben] (transitive) to transport by air [auxiliary haben] (intransitive, colloquial) to get the axe, to get kicked out [auxiliary sein] (intransitive, colloquial) to fall; to fall down [auxiliary sein] ==== Conjugation ==== 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