fließen

See also: fliessen, Fliessen, and Fließen

German

Alternative forms

• fliessen (Switzerland, Liechtenstein)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old High German vliozan, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *fleutaną, akin to English fleet (verb), Old Saxon fliotan and Dutch vlieten.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfliːsn̩/, /ˈfliːsən/

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Verb

1. (intransitive) to flow

Conjugation

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. Template:de-conj-strong

Derived terms

• zerfließen

Further reading

• “fließen” in Duden online