dohromady

Dohromady is a Czech adverb meaning “together; in total; all told.” It is used to express the idea of combining multiple elements or people into a single group or to indicate the total amount of something. The word is formed from the prefix do- (toward, into) and hromada (pile, crowd), evolving into a fixed expression that denotes summation rather than a literal physical gathering.

Common usage patterns include combining numbers or items: for example, Dohromady máme pět aut (Altogether we have five cars). It can describe a total cost: Dohromady to stojí 1 200 korun (That costs 1,200 crowns in total). It is also used with people: Přijelo nás dohromady šest (Six of us arrived in total). In sentences about capacity or capability, it can appear as Dohromady to zvládneme (We can handle it altogether).

Dohromady is widely used in standard Czech and appears in both spoken and written language. It tends to be more informal than some synonyms like celkem or celkově, though it remains common in formal writing when a concise total is required.

Translations into English include altogether, in total, all told. In other languages, equivalent terms reflect the sense of summing components (for example, German insgesamt or alles zusammen). The term is typically not capitalized unless it begins a sentence, and it remains a versatile and commonly understood way to express aggregate quantities in Czech.