كَذَا stands for an amount or expression deliberately left unspecified.
Added example: «اشْتَرَيْتُ كَذَا كِتَابًا» — I bought such-and-such a number of books.
اشْتَرَيْتُ: past verb with first-person tāʾ.
كَذَا: an unspecified numerical expression in the object position; كِتَابًا: an accusative tamyīz specifying what is counted.
The source does not elaborate the syntax of kadhā here, so this illustration is included only to clarify meaning.
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Al-Kināyāt — Kam, its Tamyīz and Syntactic Positions
كَذَا stands for an amount or expression deliberately left unspecified.
Added example: «اشْتَرَيْتُ كَذَا كِتَابًا» — I bought such-and-such a number of books.
اشْتَرَيْتُ: past verb with first-person tāʾ.
كَذَا: an unspecified numerical expression in the object position; كِتَابًا: an accusative tamyīz specifying what is counted.
The source does not elaborate the syntax of kadhā here, so this illustration is included only to clarify meaning.