Noun: houba
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Singular
| Nominative | houba |
| Genitive | houby |
| Dative | houbě |
| Accusative | houbu |
| Vocative | houbo |
| Locative | houbě |
| Instrumental | houbou |
Plural
| Nominative | houby |
| Genitive | hub |
| Dative | houbám |
| Accusative | houby |
| Vocative | houby |
| Locative | houbách |
| Instrumental | houbami |
Sample Sentences
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Některé houby jsou jedlé, jiné jedovaté. (Some mushrooms are edible, other are poisonous.)
Nouns inflected like houba
houba,
Etymology
Inherited from Old Czech húba, from Proto-Slavic *gǫba. This might be related to Middle High German swamb (German Schwamm), Latin fungus and Greek σπόγγος (spóngos) or σφόγγος (sfóngos), which supposes some consonant transposition. See: German Nouns '
Schwamm', Latin Nouns '
fungus'.
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