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Academic teaching rationale

### agünchatiburiha *“he would habitually tighten (a rope around something) / he usually tightens (a rope around something).”* The form **agünchatiburiha** is built upon the root *agüncha*, “to tighten (a rope around something)” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it are joined the third-person masculine ('he') agreement suffix *-ti*, which fixes the subject as third-person masculine ('he'); then the habitual suffix *-buriha*, which makes the action one's customary practice — 'would usually, habitually, as a rule'. Taken whole, the word means precisely “he would habitually tighten (a rope around something) / he usually tightens (a rope around something)” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. To see its precise force, compare **nagüncha** (“I tighten (a rope around something)”); **bagüncha** (“you tighten (a rope around something)”): 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. *The construction rests on Haurholm-Larsen 2016 §3.3.4 (-ti/-tu); MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (eibuga aspect family: -dugu frequentative / -gubeiyein perfect-continuous). This is a principled composition — a cited root joined to a cited paradigm — and so it is of