Arabic vocabulary
وَكَذَا is how you say “and such” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
قَالَ مَا قَالَ قَالَ كَذَا وَكَذَا
He said what he said, saying such and such.
وَكَذَا — and such. Two pieces: wa- ('and') joining to the previous word, plus the same vague 'so-and-so'. The repeated pair, linked by wa-, makes the fixed idiom 'such and such', standing in for content left unstated.
From: Conquest of Mecca Account →OpenArabic teaches words like وَكَذَا through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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