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### gapusarahati *“he sojourns well; the male one who sojourns well.”* The form **gapusarahati** is built upon the root *apusaraha*, “to sojourn” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it are joined the attributive prefix *ga-*, which, set before a verb, says the action is done well or skilfully — and before a noun, 'having / with'; then the element *-ti* (3SG.M/AGT), whose force is given by the elder paradigm. Taken whole, the word means precisely “he sojourns well; the male one who sojourns well” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Set against its kin, **napusaraha** (“I sojourn”); **bapusaraha** (“you sojourn”): 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 *“ába gíñe laríñagun hoún. —dánme lé hebélurun lídoun ában fulásu apúsaraha, reídei humá ñí tídan ában méme múna darí háfuridun lídaangiñe fulásu ligía”*. [05_sentences.CLEAN_2026-06-20] *The construction rests on Haurholm-Larsen 2016 §3.3.4 (-ti/-tu); Quesada 2017 §3 person-indexation. This is a principled composition — a cited root joined to a cited paradigm — and so it is offered for f