Luftlinie

German Etymology de :af Luft<t:air> Linie<t:line> From de Luft Linie air line. Pronunciation de /ˈlʊftˌliːni̯ə/ de De-Luftlinie.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) Noun f de geography beeline; distance as the crow flies de 1955 Kurt Guggenheim de Alles in Allem 15 Th. Gut Verlag 2018 Selbst damals, entfaltete er am Morgen als erstes, in seine Bude an der Culmann-Straße zurückgekehrt, die Eisenbahnkarte der Schweiz und maß die Luftlinie von Zürich bis zum Grenzfluß der Rhein. Even back then, the first thing he did upon getting back to his flat on Culmann Strasse that morning was to unfold the railway map of Switzerland and measure the distance as the crow flies from Zurich to the border river of the Rhein. Usage notes Also used adverbially; for example: de Die Entfernung beträgt Luftlinie 300 Meter. The distance is 300 meters '''as the crow flies. The word is a false friend of en airline, for which use de Fluggesellschaft or the borrowing de Airline. Declension f Descendants he קו אווירי kav aviri 1 See also de Gerade f straight line in geometry