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So I read this, What does なにか mean in this sentence? and to clarify, I also ran across a sentence, "何かプレゼントを買いましょうか? Here, I'm guessing 何か does not mean something, or at least I think, so does the sentence mean like, "Lets go buy some kind of present?" or
Could it be, "lets go buy some presents?"
明鏡国語辞典 does not explicitly explain the part of speech of this type of 何か. It just says it's a "phrase" (連語). Rather than worrying about the direct English translation of this type of 何か, I think you just can remember this pattern and go on. This pattern is translated into English in slightly different ways depending on the surrounding context, and I hesitate to conclusively say it's "some", "something", "any" or "anything" in English.
