fate

destino, suerte

Lo que finalmente le sucede a alguien o algo, especialmente si es malo.

En inglés sencillo: What happens to someone or something in the end, especially something bad.

• Nobody knows his fate.
• Both factories suffered the same fate.
• The court will decide the prisoners’ fate tomorrow.

Cómo se usa: the fate of someone/something (The fate of the missing ship remains unknown.)

Sinónimos: outcome, destiny

Expresiones frecuentes: someone’s fate, suffer this fate, escape that fate

destino

Fuerza que, según se cree, controla lo que sucede en la vida de las personas.

En inglés sencillo: A power believed to control what happens in people’s lives.

• Do you believe in fate?
• She felt that fate had brought them together.
• We left the decision to fate and tossed a coin.

Sinónimos: destiny

Expresiones frecuentes: believe in fate, trust fate, leave to fate

destino

Poder que se cree que determina lo que ocurre en la vida.

En inglés sencillo: A power believed to control what happens in life.

• Perhaps fate brought us together.
• She believed fate controlled her life.
• Would fate give him another chance?

Sinónimos: destiny

Expresiones frecuentes: cruel fate, trust fate, fate intervenes

predestinar

Hacer que un acontecimiento futuro sea inevitable por obra del destino.

En inglés sencillo: To make a future event certain to happen through the power of destiny.

• They were fated to fall in love.
• The king seemed fated to lose his crown.
• Was she fated to spend her life alone?

Cómo se usa: be fated to do something (They were fated to meet again.)

Sinónimos: destine, predestine

Expresiones frecuentes: fate someone to, be fated to