inheritance

herencia

Dinero, propiedades u otros bienes que recibes de alguien cuando muere.

En inglés sencillo: Money, property, or other things that you receive when someone dies.

• He spent his inheritance.
• Her inheritance included a small house.
• Did you receive an inheritance from your grandmother?

Cómo se usa: an inheritance from someone (She received an inheritance from her uncle.)

Sinónimos: legacy, bequest

Expresiones frecuentes: large inheritance, receive an inheritance, inheritance tax

herencia, transmisión

Proceso por el que se reciben cosas o características de personas, generaciones o fuentes anteriores.

En inglés sencillo: The process of receiving things or features from earlier people, generations, or sources.

• Inheritance explains some family similarities.
• The disease follows a pattern of genetic inheritance.
• These languages share words through inheritance from a common ancestor.

Cómo se usa: inheritance of something from someone/something (The study explores the inheritance of traits from parents.)

Sinónimos: transmission, passing down

Expresiones frecuentes: genetic inheritance, cultural inheritance, inheritance of something