🇪🇸 Spanish

herencia

feminine

la herencia

inheritance

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herencia
/la eˈɾenθja/
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How do you say herencia in Spanish?

IPA
/la eˈɾenθja/

How do you pronounce herencia in Spanish?

herencia is pronounced /la eˈɾenθja/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

La herencia cultural española es muy importante para la identidad nacional.

The Spanish cultural heritage is very important for national identity.

Mi abuela dejó una herencia valiosa que fue distribuida entre sus hijos.

My grandmother left a valuable inheritance that was distributed among her children.

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Why is it feminine?

Herencia is feminine because it derives from the Latin "haereditas," which was a feminine noun (following the -itas suffix pattern that typically produced feminine nouns in Latin), and Spanish retained this grammatical gender through regular phonetic evolution.

What is the Spanish word for inheritance?

The Spanish word for inheritance is la herencia — feminine.

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