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Academic teaching rationale

### akutihabei *“you investigate akutihani.”* The form **akutihabei** is built upon the root *akutiha*, “to investigate akutihani” (The People's Garifuna Dictionary (Cayetano)). To it is joined the modal person suffix *-bei*, placing second-person singular ('you') within the modal (irrealis) series. Taken whole, the word means precisely “you investigate akutihani” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Among the forms built on the same root, **nakutiha** (“I investigate akutihani”); **bakutiha** (“you investigate akutihani”): 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 *“Akútiha-ti lumuti wügûri weíriyali l-úruduna unábuguti lún l-adéiruni lirichá-ni.”* — ‘The elder man analyzes the laws of the village to find righteousness.’. [FEED:verified_sentences] *The construction rests on MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (modal/optative paradigm, root ex. aguyaguda). This is a principled composition — a cited root joined to a cited paradigm — and so it is offered for fluent-elder validation rather than asserted as attested.*