inherits
- 1Third-person singular simple present of inherit.
Under the old law, the eldest child inherits the entire estate.
A subclass inherits every method defined in its parent class.
Note
The -s ending appears only after a singular subject (she, it, the heir, the subclass); every other present-tense subject takes bare inherit. The form carries all the verb's uses. A child inherits an estate or a title, a daughter inherits her mother's eyes, and in programming a class inherits functionality from its superclass. It usually takes a direct object, though it can stand alone, meaning simply to come into an inheritance.
inherits is a form of inherit
inherit, verb: To receive property, a title, or other possessions through legal succession or a will after the previous owner dies. Full entry
- Forms
- inheritinherits he/she/itinheriting -ing forminherited past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- inherit → inherits: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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