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Academic teaching rationale

### agurabagubeiyadiwa *“we have always been waiting briefly aguraabaa wait (continuously / habitually, up to now).”* The form **agurabagubeiyadiwa** is built upon the root *aguraba*, “to wait briefly aguraabaa wait” (The People's Garifuna Dictionary (Cayetano)). To it is joined the perfect-continuous suffix *-gubeiyadiwa* (1PL), which carries 'we have always been …-ing' across all past time; on a negative stem it reads 'we have never been'. Taken whole, the word means precisely “we have always been waiting briefly aguraabaa wait (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, **naguraba** (“I wait briefly aguraabaa wait”); **baguraba** (“you wait briefly aguraabaa wait”): 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 *“aguraba hougadina ah tuagu ligaradan nirau oh”* — ‘you beside him hugging closely for papers my daughter’. [elar_sg0340_eaf_gold_annotations_43] *The construction rests on MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (eibuga aspect family: -dugu frequentative / -gu