LessonsAl-Kināyāt — Kam, its Tamyīz and Syntactic PositionsQuiz

كَمْ رَجُلًا ضَرَبْتَ؟ — How many men did you strike?
كَمْ: interrogative, indeclinable, in the accusative position as the fronted direct object.
رَجُلًا: singular accusative interrogative tamyīz.
ضَرَبْتَ: past verb with subject tāʾ.

The verb has no object pronoun already occupying its object slot, so kam itself functions as that object.

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Kam as an object

Al-Kināyāt — Kam, its Tamyīz and Syntactic Positions

كَمْ رَجُلًا ضَرَبْتَ؟ — How many men did you strike?
كَمْ: interrogative, indeclinable, in the accusative position as the fronted direct object.
رَجُلًا: singular accusative interrogative tamyīz.
ضَرَبْتَ: past verb with subject tāʾ.

The verb has no object pronoun already occupying its object slot, so kam itself functions as that object.