fliehen

From 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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfliː.ən/

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fliehen (class 2 strong, third-person singular present flieht, past tense floh, past participle geflohen, past subjunctive flöhe, auxiliary haben or sein)

1. (intransitive, auxiliary sein) to flee; to escape

   Als die Polizei eintraf, war der Räuber bereits geflohen.

   When the police arrived, the robber had already fled.

2. (intransitive, auxiliary sein) (archaic, poetic) to fly

   Die Vögel fliehen.

   The birds are flying (fleeing).

3. (intransitive, auxiliary sein) to diverge

   Die Linien fliehen.

   The lines diverge.

4. (transitive, auxiliary haben) (higher register) to flee from (someone); to avoid

   Ich fliehe diesen Kerl wie die Pest.

   I avoid that guy like the plague.

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• Fliehkraft
• entfliehen
• Flucht
• flüchten
• fliehend
• fliegen (to fly)

• “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