نَحْوُ «كَمْ ضَرْبَةً ضَرَبْتَ» وَ«كَمْ ضَرْبَةٍ ضَرَبْتَ» مَصْدَرًا.
Translation: For example, “How many blows did you strike?” or “How many blows you struck!”; in both cases the counted item is an occurrence of the action.
For teaching, the two uses are distinguished by vocalization: interrogative «ضَرْبَةً», declarative «ضَرْبَةٍ». Kam occupies an accusative cognate-object position and ḍarbah specifies the unit counted.
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Al-Kināyāt — Kam, its Tamyīz and Syntactic Positions
نَحْوُ «كَمْ ضَرْبَةً ضَرَبْتَ» وَ«كَمْ ضَرْبَةٍ ضَرَبْتَ» مَصْدَرًا.
Translation: For example, “How many blows did you strike?” or “How many blows you struck!”; in both cases the counted item is an occurrence of the action.
For teaching, the two uses are distinguished by vocalization: interrogative «ضَرْبَةً», declarative «ضَرْبَةٍ». Kam occupies an accusative cognate-object position and ḍarbah specifies the unit counted.