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### aribigagubeiyein *“he has always been perishing (continuously / habitually, up to now).”* The form **aribigagubeiyein** is built upon the root *aribiga*, “to perish/ to die” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it is joined the perfect-continuous suffix *-gubeiyein*, which stretches the action across all past time up to the present, 'has always been …-ing' (the *-yein* marking a masculine subject). Taken whole, the word means precisely “he has always been perishing (continuously / habitually, up to now)” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Set against its kin, **naribiga** (“I perish”); **baribiga** (“you perish”): 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 *“Aríbigaa wéiriyei líra.”* — ‘That old man has died. She died from her illness-aribigaa luweigia tisandi. The lady died in her sleep- aribiga lidan tarumugu.’. [FEED:verified_sentences] *The construction rests on MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (eibuga aspect family: -dugu frequentative / -gubeiyein perfect-continuous). This is a principled composition — a cited root joined to