Explanation of the words of Ibn Malik (may Allah have mercy on him): "And I have made raising and lowering inflection *** for a noun and a verb, like 'I will not fear.'"
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The Shaykh : The author (may Allah have mercy on him) says:
"And I have made raising and lowering inflection *** for a noun and a verb"
We have previously mentioned that a noun is either inflected or uninflected, and the same applies to the verb, as you know. The inflected word is that which changes at its end due to different grammatical factors, while the uninflected word is not so. Therefore, the inflected word has markers for raising and lowering. Inflection is specific to the inflected word. He says: "I have made raising and lowering inflection for the noun and the verb." So the noun can be raised, and the verb can be raised; the noun can be lowered, and the verb can be lowered. Thus, the noun and the verb share in raising and lowering. Do you understand, everyone? Good.
"Zayd stands up." "Zayd stands up." The verb is raised: "stands up," and the noun is raised: "Zayd."
Lowering: "I will not humiliate the student." "I will not humiliate the student." "Humiliate" is a lowered verb, and "the student" is a lowered noun. So it is.
And its example is: "like 'I will not fear'". The author gave the example of the verb "I will not fear." "Will not" causes lowering, and "fear" is a present-tense verb lowered by "will not." Good. Can we make this example an example for both the noun and the verb? We say yes, for example, we can say: "I will not fear an enemy." "I will not fear an enemy." Here, "fear" is lowered by "will not," and "an enemy" is lowered by the verb.
"And I have made raising and lowering inflection *** for a noun and a verb"
We have previously mentioned that a noun is either inflected or uninflected, and the same applies to the verb, as you know. The inflected word is that which changes at its end due to different grammatical factors, while the uninflected word is not so. Therefore, the inflected word has markers for raising and lowering. Inflection is specific to the inflected word. He says: "I have made raising and lowering inflection for the noun and the verb." So the noun can be raised, and the verb can be raised; the noun can be lowered, and the verb can be lowered. Thus, the noun and the verb share in raising and lowering. Do you understand, everyone? Good.
"Zayd stands up." "Zayd stands up." The verb is raised: "stands up," and the noun is raised: "Zayd."
Lowering: "I will not humiliate the student." "I will not humiliate the student." "Humiliate" is a lowered verb, and "the student" is a lowered noun. So it is.
And its example is: "like 'I will not fear'". The author gave the example of the verb "I will not fear." "Will not" causes lowering, and "fear" is a present-tense verb lowered by "will not." Good. Can we make this example an example for both the noun and the verb? We say yes, for example, we can say: "I will not fear an enemy." "I will not fear an enemy." Here, "fear" is lowered by "will not," and "an enemy" is lowered by the verb.