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fliegen

German, verb

fliegen is spelled F-L-I-E-G-E-N (7 letters) and appears 46 times per million words in written German, the 1,852nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fliegen is a German verb meaning “to fly; to travel by air” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Fliegen is a different word: “gerund of fliegen; (the act of) flying”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “sich ohne Bodenkontakt in der Luft, im freien Raum fortbewegen (mithilfe von Flügeln, eines Antriebs, eines…”.

What does fliegen mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to fly; to travel by air

    Ich fliege morgen in die Vereinigten Staaten.

  2. 2

    to rush; to fly; to go quickly

  3. 3

    to fly; to pilot

  4. 4

    to transport by air

  5. 5

    colloquialto get the axe, to get kicked out

    ... könnte von der Akademie fliegen.

  6. 6

    colloquialto fall; to fall down

noun

as Fliegen
  1. 1

    neutergerund of fliegen; (the act of) flying

noun

as Fliegen
  1. 1

    plural of Fliege

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

verb: 1. sich ohne Bodenkontakt in der Luft, im freien Raum fortbewegen (mithilfe von Flügeln, eines Antriebs, eines Flugzeugs oder Ähnlichem) 2. (als Pilot) ein Luft- oder Raumfahrzeug führen 3. in einem Luft- oder Raumfahrzeug reisen 4. mit einem Luftfahrzeug an einen anderen Ort bringen, befördern

noun: 1. substantivierte Form von fliegen 2. eine Sportart

The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.

Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of fliegen

  • fliegt present singular third-person
  • flog past
  • geflogen participle past
  • flöge past subjunctive
  • haben auxiliary
  • sein auxiliary
  • 2 strong
  • haben or sein auxiliary
  • fliegend participle present
  • fliege first-person indicative present
  • fliegst indicative present second-person
  • fliegest second-person singular subjunctive
  • flieget plural second-person subjunctive
  • flogen first-person indicative plural
  • flögen first-person formal plural
  • flogst indicative preterite second-person
  • flogt indicative plural preterite
  • flögest formal rare second-person

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to fliegen

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is fliegen in German?

fliegen appears 46 times per million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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