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### ayarafadagubeiyanu *“they have always been coming near, approach (continuously / habitually, up to now).”* The form **ayarafadagubeiyanu** is built upon the root *ayarafada*, “to come near, approach” (The People's Garifuna Dictionary (Cayetano)). To it is joined the perfect-continuous suffix *-gubeiyanu* (3PL), which carries 'they have always been …-ing'; on a negative stem it reads 'they have never been' (cf. meigigubeiyanu 'they have never eaten'). Taken whole, the word means precisely “they have always been coming near, approach (continuously / habitually, up to now)” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Among the forms built on the same root, **nayarafada** (“I come near, approach”); **bayarafada** (“you come near, approach”): each shares the same stem yet bends it to a different shade of meaning, which is exactly how Garífuna wins great precision from a single root. While a citation of this exact form still awaits collection, its root is heard in living speech, as in *“Sigiméme wamá ayarafada hou íbirigu ha ítarabaña woun kei iduheñu”*. [05_sentences.CLEAN_2026-06-20] *The construction rests on MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (eibuga aspect family: -dugu frequentative / -gubeiyein perfect-continuous). This is a principled