No. 735 in Czech
dodnes
"To this day."
In a sentence
Dodnes si pamatuji její úsměv.
To this day, I remember her smile.
'Dodnes' is used to express the meaning of 'up until today'. It is functioning adverbially, indicating that the action of remembering continues up to the present.
Dodnes nikdo neví, jak se to stalo.
To this day, no one knows how it happened.
'Dodnes' conveys the continuation of time in which the state of not knowing persists up to today.
Dodnes používáme starou rodinnou recepturu.
We still use the old family recipe to this day.
'Dodnes' here denotes that the action of using the recipe has been ongoing and is maintained up until now, providing a temporal context for the tradition.
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