fliehen
German
editEtymology
editFrom Middle High German [Term?], from Old High German fliohan, from Proto-West Germanic *fleuhan, from Proto-Germanic *fleuhaną. Cognate with Dutch vlieden and English flee.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editfliehen (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]
- Als die Polizei eintraf, war der Räuber bereits geflohen.
- When the police arrived, the robber had already fled.
- (intransitive, archaic, poetic) to fly [auxiliary sein]
- Die Vögel fliehen.
- The birds are flying (fleeing).
- (intransitive) to diverge [auxiliary sein]
- Die Linien fliehen.
- The lines diverge.
- (transitive, higher register) to flee from (someone); to avoid [auxiliary haben]
- Ich fliehe diesen Kerl wie die Pest.
- I avoid that guy like the plague.
Conjugation
editinfinitive | fliehen | ||||
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present participle | fliehend | ||||
past participle | geflohen | ||||
auxiliary | haben or sein | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich fliehe | wir fliehen | i | ich fliehe | wir fliehen |
du fliehst | ihr flieht | du fliehest | ihr fliehet | ||
er flieht | sie fliehen | er fliehe | sie fliehen | ||
preterite | ich floh | wir flohen | ii | ich flöhe1 | wir flöhen1 |
du flohst | ihr floht | du flöhest1 du flöhst1 |
ihr flöhet1 ihr flöht1 | ||
er floh | sie flohen | er flöhe1 | sie flöhen1 | ||
imperative | flieh (du) fliehe (du) |
flieht (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Related terms
edit- Fliehkraft
- entfliehen
- Flucht
- flüchten
- fliehend
- fliegen (to fly)
Further reading
edit- “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
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