fliehen

== German == === Etymology === From Middle High German vliehen, from Old High German fliohan, from Proto-West Germanic *fleuhan, from Proto-Germanic *fleuhaną. Cognate with Dutch vlieden and English flee. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfliː.ən/ === Verb === fliehen (class 2 strong, third-person singular present flieht, past tense floh, past participle geflohen, past subjunctive flöhe, auxiliary haben or sein) (intransitive) to flee; to escape [auxiliary sein] (intransitive, archaic, poetic) to fly [auxiliary sein] (intransitive) to diverge [auxiliary sein] (transitive, higher register) to flee from (someone); to avoid [auxiliary haben] ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “fliehen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache “fliehen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “fliehen” in Duden online “fliehen” in OpenThesaurus.de Friedrich Kluge (1883), “fliehen”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891