Inherit

/ɪnˈhɛɹɪt/

Synonyms for "inherit" (25 found)

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Closest matches (5)

Verb(5 words)
accedingacquireacquire traitsadoptassume

Strong matches (8)

Verb(3 words)
borndevolvesembrace
come bycome intocome onensuefollow

Related words (12)

Verb(7 words)
gain traitsobtainobtain traitsreceivesucceedsucceedingtake on
Noun(1 words)
inheriting

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

11 entries

More specific

6 entries
adopt customcarry on traditioninherit eye colorinherit heightreceive bequestreceive estate

Collocations

6 entries
inherit a fortuneinherit a traditioninherit frominherit propertyinherit the estateinherit wealth

Inflections

3 entries

Derivations

3 entries

Translations

51 translations across 43 languages.

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Ancient Greek

1 entries
  • κληρονομέω verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

Arabic

1 entries
  • وَرَثَ verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

Armenian

1 entries
  • ժառանգել verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

Asturian

1 entries
  • heredar verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

Bulgarian

1 entries
  • наследявам verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

Catalan

1 entries
  • heretar verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

Chinese

2 entries
  • 繼承 /继承 verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)
  • 继承 verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

Czech

3 entries
  • dědit verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)
  • podědit verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)
  • zdědit verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

Dutch

1 entries
  • erven verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

East Central German

1 entries
  • aarm verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

Egyptian

1 entries
  • E9:a-F44 verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • heredi verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

Finnish

1 entries
  • periä verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

French

1 entries
  • hériter verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

Galician

1 entries
  • herdar verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

German

1 entries
  • erben verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

Greek

1 entries
  • κληρονομώ verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

Hebrew

1 entries
  • יָרַשׁ verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • örököl verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

Icelandic

1 entries
  • erfa verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

Irish

1 entries
  • faigh le hoidhreacht verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

Italian

1 entries
  • ereditare verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

Japanese

1 entries
  • 受継ぐ verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

Latin

1 entries
  • heredito verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

Malay

1 entries
  • mewarisi verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

Norwegian

1 entries
  • arve verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

Occitan

1 entries
  • eiretar verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

Old English

1 entries
  • ierfan verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

Oromo

1 entries
  • dhaaluu verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

Polish

2 entries
  • dziedziczyć verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)
  • odziedziczyć verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • herdar verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

Romanian

1 entries
  • moșteni verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

Russian

2 entries
  • насле́довать verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)
  • унасле́довать verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

Slovak

2 entries
  • dediť verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)
  • zdediť verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

Slovene

2 entries
  • dedovati verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)
  • podedovati verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

Spanish

1 entries
  • heredar verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

Swahili

1 entries
  • -rithi verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

Swedish

1 entries
  • ärva verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

Ukrainian

2 entries
  • успадко́вувати verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)
  • успадкува́ти verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

Vietnamese

1 entries
  • thừa kế verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

Volapük

1 entries
  • gerön verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

Walloon

1 entries
  • eriter verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

Welsh

1 entries
  • etifeddu verb (to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.)

Sample sentences

19 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

In the case of language, however, it is only the ability to talk and understand that we inherit genetically; the particular language or languages that we speak are passed on to us not by genetic transmission but by cultural transmission.

Source: tatoeba (53627)

All of these abilities are passed on to us by genetic transmission; we receive them by way of the genes that we inherit from our parents.

Source: tatoeba (240179)

I will inherit his estate.

Source: tatoeba (260628)

A son who could not learn to paddle his own canoe does not deserve to inherit his father's fortune.

Source: tatoeba (264881)

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