Japanese Sentences with English Translations - Sentences [受け継ぐ]

She inherited her mother's blue eyes.

She derives her temper from her grandfather.

She derives her character from her mother.

He must succeed to his father's business.

He must succeed to his father's business.

He has some share of his father's genius.

He succeeded to his father's estate.

He inherited of a great fortune.

He has no claim to the property.

He came into a fortune when his father died.

When we say that a language is culturally transmitted - that is, that it is learned rather than inherited - we mean that it is part of that whole complex of learned and shared behavior that anthropologists call culture.

I inherited his estate.

I am to take over my father's business.

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.

These old customs have been handed down from generation to generation.

This tradition has been passed down from generation to generation.

This custom has been handed down from generation to generation.