See also: fliessen, Fliessen, and Fließen

German edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

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.

Pronunciation edit

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

Verb edit

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

  1. (intransitive) to flow

Conjugation edit

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.

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Further reading edit

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