IAtionary: Fliegen Nach Wien

Fliegen Nach Wien [FLEE-gən nach veen] v.

1. To travel to a generic, unimportant place
2. To perform any unspecified action
3. Used to excuse oneself from explaining where they are going
4. Literally: to fly to Vienna

Language of Origin: Deutsch

This term comes from the fact that, in the German book we use, Neue Horizonte, it seems as if everyone flies to Vienna. Fliegen, to fly, was one of our first vocab words, and in every example involving it, someone ends up in Vienna. For example, it is common for a question to be something like this:

Person A: Hallo! Was machst du morgen? (Hello! What are you doing tomorrow?)
Person B: Oh, ich _______ nach Wien um 7 Uhr. (Oh, I ______ to Vienna at 7 o'clock.)

We would have to supply the word 'fliege,' meaning 'fly.' The book never uses Berlin, Ulm, Frankfurt, always Vienna. It's not even in Germany! It's so common that we figure that Vienna must have an overpopulation problem, as no example ever mentions anyone having recently returned from Vienna. So it's kinda become a joke between a few people in my German class. Like if I go to the bathroom, when I get back Student A will ask me where I went and I'll reply with "Ich fliege nach Wien." So I thought it was worthy of induction into the IAtionary. Got to go- I'm flying to Vienna tonight.

Edit: Actually, according to the most important law of German grammar, (,,Äll Infinitiveverbs müst ät the End öf the Sentence cöme,") it should really be Nach Wien Fliegen. But I like it the way it is.

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