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Academic teaching rationale

### átaraharu *“she has chipped with a machete (present perfect — Suazo).”* The form **átaraharu** is built upon the root *átaraha*, “to chip with a machete” (The People's Garifuna Dictionary (Cayetano)). To it is joined the present-perfect suffix *-ru* (3SG.F, Suazo), 'she has V-ed'. Taken whole, the word means precisely “she has chipped with a machete (present perfect — Suazo)” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Placed beside its siblings, **nátaraha** (“I chip with a machete”); **bátaraha** (“you chip with a machete”): 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 *“Átarahati mádunlun ában enehénei iséri láu tidibu hibúari”* — ‘The sailor carves a new paddle with cedar wood.’. [FEED:verified_sentences] *The construction rests on Suazo, Conversemos en garífuna (Guaymuras 1991/1994) — principle recorded with attribution. 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.*