What does "何か他" mean?


I've seen 他に何か in dictionaries but I just found this sentence.

> 何か他に食べててくれたら良いけど

Does this mean "It'd be fine if you eat something else"?

Can the sentence retain the same meaning if you just used 他に without 何か？




Adding か to an interrogative pronoun, turns it into the Japanese equivalent of
a "some~" pronoun:

> 誰【だれ】 who → 誰【だれ】か someone
>
> どこ where → どこか somewhere
>
> 何【なに】 what → 何【なに】か something

So, if you remove the 何か from your sentence, it does **not** retain the same
meaning because it would miss the "something" part.

Let's compare:

> どこへ行きますか。Where do [you] go?
>
> どこかへ行きますか。Do [you] go somewhere?
>
> 質問【しつもん】がありますか。 Do [you] have questions [at all]?
>
> 何【なに】か質問【しつもん】がありますか。Do [you] have any (literally "some") question?




Adding か to an interrogative pronoun, turns it into the Japanese equivalent of
a "some~" pronoun:

> 誰【だれ】 who → 誰【だれ】か someone
>
> どこ where → どこか somewhere
>
> 何【なに】 what → 何【なに】か something

So, if you remove the 何か from your sentence, it does **not** retain the same
meaning because it would miss the "something" part.

Let's compare:

> どこへ行きますか。Where do [you] go?
>
> どこかへ行きますか。Do [you] go somewhere?
>
> 質問【しつもん】がありますか。 Do [you] have questions [at all]?
>
> 何【なに】か質問【しつもん】がありますか。Do [you] have any (literally "some") question?

