وَتَدْخُلُ «مِنْ» فِيهِمَا، تَقُولُ: «كَمْ مِنْ رَجُلٍ لَقِيتَهُ»، وَ«كَمْ مِنْ مَالٍ أَنْفَقْتَهُ».
Translation: Min may occur with either kind of kam: “How many men did you meet?” and “How much wealth I spent!”
The noun after min is overtly genitive: min rajulin, min mālin. The presence of min does not itself settle whether kam is interrogative or declarative; context determines that.
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Al-Kināyāt — Kam, its Tamyīz and Syntactic Positions
وَتَدْخُلُ «مِنْ» فِيهِمَا، تَقُولُ: «كَمْ مِنْ رَجُلٍ لَقِيتَهُ»، وَ«كَمْ مِنْ مَالٍ أَنْفَقْتَهُ».
Translation: Min may occur with either kind of kam: “How many men did you meet?” and “How much wealth I spent!”
The noun after min is overtly genitive: min rajulin, min mālin. The presence of min does not itself settle whether kam is interrogative or declarative; context determines that.