fließen

See also: fliessen, Fliessen, and Fließen

GermanEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle High German vliezen, from Old High German vliozan, from Proto-West Germanic *fleutan, from Proto-Germanic *fleutaną, akin to English fleet (verb), Old Saxon fliotan and Dutch vlieten.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈfliːsn̩/, /ˈfliːsən/
  • (file)
  • (file)

VerbEdit

fließen (class 2 strong, third-person singular present fließt, past tense floss, past participle geflossen, past subjunctive flösse, auxiliary sein)

  1. (intransitive) to flow

ConjugationEdit

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 termsEdit

Further readingEdit

  • fließen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • fließen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • fließen” in Duden online
  • fließen” in OpenThesaurus.de