This is the 735th most frequent Czech word.
dodnes
"To this day."
'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 si pamatuji její úsměv.
To this day, I remember her smile.
'Dodnes' conveys the continuation of time in which the state of not knowing persists up to today.
Dodnes nikdo neví, jak se to stalo.
To this day, no one knows how it happened.
'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.