See also: fliessen, Fliessen, and Fließen

German

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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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

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

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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

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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 terms

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Further reading

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