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Academic teaching rationale

### agumadirahamai *“they all rule, govern, command, control aumadiruni.”* The form **agumadirahamai** is built upon the root *agumadira*, “to rule, govern, command, control aumadiruni” (The People's Garifuna Dictionary (Cayetano)). To it is joined the modal person suffix *-hamai*, placing third-person plural ('they') within the modal (irrealis) series. Taken whole, the word means precisely “they all rule, govern, command, control aumadiruni” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Among the forms built on the same root, **nagumadira** (“I rule, govern, command, control aumadiruni”); **bagumadira** (“you rule, govern, command, control aumadiruni”): 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 *“Añaheinti amu, hageindaguña lun máyeihan hamani igaburi burí le kamanibei ubouagu, kéiburi habusenrun lun hagía lan agumadiragua houngua, o sandí hamá anufudei hawéi gürigia o gañi gañi hamá. w24.07 páh. 14 pár. 3; páh. 15 pár. 5 Leindi 20 lidan sedü-hati Lunti feruduna humani, ru huguyame gurasu lun luéi ladügün saragu íruni wuribati lun ( 2 Ko. )”*.