fliegst

Fliegst is the second-person singular present tense form of the German verb fliegen, meaning to fly. It is used with the informal subject du to describe a present action or state. In everyday language, du fliegst can refer to traveling by air, describing birds in flight, or speaking metaphorically about moving quickly or ambitiously. The pronunciation is approximately [fliːkst].

Grammatically, fliegen is a strong verb. Its present tense forms are ich fliege, du fliegst, er fliegt, wir fliegen, ihr fliegt, sie fliegen, Sie fliegen. The second-person form adds the ending -st to the stem flieg-, giving fliegst; the third-person singular takes -t, yielding fliegt. The past tense forms include flog (simple past) and geflogen (past participle) used with the auxiliary sein or haben in compound tenses. Common present-tense usage examples include: Du fliegst heute nach Berlin. Wir fliegen oft mit der Bahn, aber nächstes Mal fliegst du.