كمhow many

Example sentences

• كم من لذة حصلها الإنسان في ساعة، فكانت سببًا لشقائه الأبدي

  How many a pleasure has a person gained in an hour, which then became a cause of his eternal misery!

  كَمْ — how many. An exclamatory word 'how many', used to marvel at a large number: how many a pleasure. It opens a rhetorical exclamation and governs the noun that follows in a partitive frame.

  From: Paradise Over Pleasure →

• وكم من ألم احتمله في ساعة، فكان سببًا لنعيمه الدائم

  And how many a pain has someone endured in an hour, which then became a cause of his everlasting bliss!

  وَكَمْ — and how many. The joined 'and' plus the exclamatory 'how many', opening a parallel marveling clause about pain. The 'and' links it to the pleasure exclamation before; the exclamatory governs the count.

  From: Paradise Over Pleasure →