podobou
Podobou is the instrumental singular form of the Czech noun podoba, which means appearance, likeness, or form. As a grammatical form, podobou is used in sentences where the instrumental case expresses means, manner, or resemblance. It is most commonly encountered in literary, historical, or formal prose and is much rarer in everyday speech.
The word podoba comes from the Proto-Slavic root related to likeness or shape, and it is cognate
In modern Czech, the instrumental singular podobou tends to appear in older texts or in very formal
Podoba (appearance, likeness, form), podobný (similar, resembling), podobnost (similarity), and the adverb podobně (similarly).
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