No. 510 in Slovak
ktorými
"Which" or "by which" (instrumental plural form).
In a sentence
Sú to knihy, ktorými som sa inšpirovala.
These are the books by which I was inspired.
The word 'ktorými' in this sentence is used as a relative pronoun to refer back to 'books' in an instrumental case, showing the means by which the inspiration came.
Videla som ľudí, s ktorými sme hovorili na oslave.
I saw people with whom we talked at the party.
Here, 'ktorými' serves as a relative pronoun in the instrumental case, referring to 'people' and indicating companionship relating to the action 'talked'.
Cesty, po ktorými sme išli, boli zamrznuté.
The roads over which we traveled were frozen.
In this example, 'ktorými' is again a relative pronoun, referring to 'roads' in an instrumental sense, combined with the preposition 'po' to describe the manner of movement.
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