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Academic teaching rationale

### wachiba *“we wash achibauágu.”* The form **wachiba** is built upon the root *achiba*, “to wash achibauágu” (The People's Garifuna Dictionary (Cayetano)). To it is joined the first-person plural subject prefix *wa-*, marking first-person plural ('we') as the one who acts. Taken whole, the word means precisely “we wash achibauágu” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. To see its precise force, compare **nachiba** (“I wash achibauágu”); **bachiba** (“you wash achibauágu”): 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 *“Achibaguti wügüri ligía, achiba lumuti seni ságü bináafi.”* — ‘That man is a washer, he washes the nets every morning.’. [FEED:verified_sentences] *The construction rests on Quesada 2017 §3 person-indexation. 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.*