fliegen

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfliːɡn̩/, /ˈfliːɡŋ̩/

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• Rhymes: -iːɡn̩

fliegen (class 2 strong, third-person singular present fliegt, past tense flog, past participle geflogen, past subjunctive flöge, auxiliary haben or sein)

1. (intransitive) to fly; to travel by air [auxiliary sein]

   Ich fliege morgen in die Vereinigten Staaten.

   I'm flying to the United States tomorrow.

   • 2010, Der Spiegel‎, number 52/2010, page 16:

     Passagiere, die aus den USA nach Europa fliegen und dort umsteigen, sollen ab dem 1. April im Transitbereich nicht mehr kontrolliert werden.

     It is planned that passengers who fly from the United States to Europe and change planes there are not checked in the transit area anymore after April 1.

2. (intransitive, figuratively) to rush; to fly; to go quickly [auxiliary sein]
3. (transitive) to fly; to pilot [auxiliary haben]
4. (transitive) to transport by air [auxiliary haben]
5. (intransitive, colloquial) to get the axe, to get kicked out [auxiliary sein]

   ... könnte von der Akademie fliegen.

   ... could get kicked out of academy.

6. (intransitive, colloquial) to fall; to fall down [auxiliary sein]

• In early modern German, the 2nd and 3rd persons singular present and the imperative singular were alternatively du fleugst, er fleugt, fleug!

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