Preguntas sobre ejemplos de oraciones con, y la definición y uso de "Ancestor"

A: Remember them. Also do the things they use to do. Like dancing, singing the songs. Using the language they used and also remembering them.

A: "hail from" means "come from".

It's where your ancestors were born and lived.

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A: Your family that came before you. (Often)Distant relatives.

You great grandpa, great grandma, grandpa, grandma, mother*, father* etc.

Descendants are your family that comes after you. Your sons, daughters, grand-kids, etc.

* We don't often refer to our parents as ancestors, although they technically are. It's often used to describe distant relatives that you're descended(come) from. You can use the term parentage in place of ancestors when referring to your mother and father.

A: We share a common ancestor from Korea.

A: "Her ancestors were well-known across the land, so she had great expectations placed upon her."
"What do you know about your ancestors?"

A: Ancestor is a person you are descended from.

Ancestry is all the people you are descended from.

A: You would use the word 'ancestor' to refer to a deceased person, perhaps, part of your/someone's family history.

'Ancestry' refers to a family history as a whole.

E.g "That person was my ancestor"
"I don't know my family ancestry"

A: Ancestors, is the most common. I've never in my life heard someone say, forebears. (I had to look it up in a dictionary)

Another common word besides ancestors is, forefathers, but this sounds more formal to me.

I only say "ancestors".

A: Ancestor is one person before you in your family tree, ancestry is all the people before you in your family tree

A: They mean the same. ^_^

A: Ancestor

A: ancestor is a person you're related to from a long time ago
ancestry is where you or your family comes from
(xin lỗi, tiếng việt của mình rất tệ)
ancestor có nghĩa là người già từ gia đình của bạn (ông, bà, ông cố, bà cố...)
ancestry là đâu bạn / già đình của bạn đến từ

A: I would ask him how his time had been.
or
What was life like in your day?
How were things back then?
I would ask him how things were in his era.
I would ask him how did they manage back then.
:)

A: Ancestor

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A: × I sometimes wonder what our ancestors look like and how they live.
✓ I sometimes wonder what our ancestors looked like and how they lived.

A: × It's interesting we look similar even though our ancestors lived in different continents, isn't it?
✓ It's interesting that we look similar even though our ancestors were from different continents, isn't it?

A: We’re going to visit my ancestor's grave now

and we’re also going to the electronics store.

I’ll buy a fridge because my house’s fridge has been broken since yesterday .

After I buy it, we’ll have to carry it until my house .

A: The descendancts have followed their great English ancestors in ruling the world and many more will follow.

A: Usually I would say "Do you know why"